Quotes About Acting

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity.

Most actresses want to look their best on the screen. It's only natural. But many of my roles have called for dreary-looking characters.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

I know I'm not a good actor; I just don't have that natural ability to perform when someone narrates a scene. What I lack in talent I make up with my brain.

I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.

I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.

As a child, I was mischievous and an attention-seeker, so acting came naturally to me.

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

I don't overact, so people think that I naturally act well. I underplay my roles, and that has worked for me.

Writing is the hardest for me. It doesn't come as naturally as the other forms, and I feel far more dread during the process. Acting and voice acting are more mercurial and maybe come a little easier to me.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.

There are a lot of actors out there who are able to engage with something in themselves which isn't necessarily their brain. But personally I find it very intellectually satisfying: doing your research and then burrowing as deeply into character as you can. I'm a naturally inquisitive person, too, and acting does feed into that.

It's fun playing the bad guy. It comes naturally.

How do you know you're not a vampire?" She needed to distract him, distract both of them. "Maybe you forgot. You're certainly capable of acting like one." This time he laughed, startling both of them. The sound was husky, low, and foreign to his ears, as if he had forgotten what it was like. His black eyes leapt to her face almost in fear. "Not bad, wild man. First a growl, and now a laugh. We're making progress.

Vittorio, always the one to seek solutions verbally, had no middle gear. Either he was talking logically, or he was acting, and when he went into action, he made every blow count.

You could never be sure how much of it was acting, for he was sly as the devil, and not above using his arts on those he loved.

A small woman came with a child on her hip. She was pregnant again. And then I saw that she was herself hardly more than a child, twelve or thirteen, but excited at the idea of already being adult enough to experience important needs. Everyone was acting (though the man with the djinn, after his flash of vanity, seemed a little too far away); everyone knew his role. But was it acting when the whole world, or the world you knew, was in the play?

Years ago, I had a conversation with an actor who maintained, 'Once you can fake sincerity, you can achieve anything.' Even when I had no respect for the people I was dealing with, it was important to behave as if I did.

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.