Quotes About Acting

Writers and actors have some creative ground in common, and so when you're writing a scene and hoping to convey a mood it's not the worst idea to try to put that mood into your headspace -- feel it, if only a little. I'm not saying you have to kill a kitten or punch your mother to feel something -- I just mean, stir up the memory of certain emotions if not the emotion itself. Same way an actor might think about a sad moment to conjure tears on-camera. 23.

We're living; but we impersonate the dead better than the dead themselves.

The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her unreal; and us solemn, and self-conscious. We were made to act parts that we did not feel; to fumble for words that we did not know. It obscured, it dulled.

Az ember úgy érzi… Úgy érzi… – mondta –, hogy csupán valami szerepet játszik, és elfelejtette a következÅ' mondatait.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

I'd like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He's a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I'd like to play his dad one day.

I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.

EMMA: I'm sorry. I still don't know how to tell people. They don't teach acting in medical school.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

Jeg ville bli skuespillerinne en gang. Jeg tok timer, har jeg fortalt deg det, Kim? - Hvorfor fortsatte du ikke? - Det er ikke alltid livet blir slik man hadde tenkt seg det. Det må du lære også.

Emily Procter getting pregnant changed the show for me. I got so much more involved, which was so much fun! Now I feel like an action figure Barbie.

I loved my time on All My Children. That show was a family to me. I am so sad that daytime is slowly fading away. I owe so much to daytime. I learned so much about my craft and I made so many wonderful friends there and I am so sad that it is all going away.

My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

The principal: You're a smart girl, so I'm going to be blunt. I think you'd be a lot happier if you stopped acting so weird. Me: Who says I'm not happy?

Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.