Quotes About Acting

I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.

I was always a performing arts kid in general - but I felt like my ultimate goal was to be an actress and be in films.

They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.

Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you are better than others. My area is acting, I guess. I hope.

Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.

When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.

I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.

What e'er thou art, act well thy part.

I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.

he always got a lot of fun of acting like the other half of a half-wit ? Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch XX

You're breaking out of character, again.

I'm nice—friendly, even—but I am a maniac who simply enjoys the fruits of acting normal.

I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers...

Himself had apparently thought the stilted, wooden quality of nonprofessionals helped to strip away the pernicious illusion of realism and to remind the audience that they were in reality watching actors acting and not people behaving.

I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.) [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]

Let me play the lion too: I will roar that I will do any man's heart good to hear me. I will roar that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again, let him roar again.

Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasm or a hideous dream. The genius and the moral instruments Are then in council, and the state of a man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

?ycie jest jedynie przelotnym cieniem; ?a?osnym aktorem, co przez godzin? puszy si? i miota na scenie, po czym znika; opowie?ci? idioty, pe?n? wrzasku i w?ciek?o?ci, a nie znacz?c? nic.