Quotes About Acting

You cannot have a learning organization without shared vision. Without a pull toward some goal which people truly want to achieve, the forces in support of the status quo can be overwhelming. Vision establishes an overarching goal. The loftiness of the target compels new ways of thinking and acting.

I can't really tell objectively how sorry I should feel for myself. I don't give the same credibility to my being that other people give to theirs. Everything feels acted." "Everything is acted." "Whatever. With me there's some glue missing, something fundamental to everyone else that I don't have. My life never seems real to me.

even when it felt like a hollow performance.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?

the Great Actor, capable of bringing herself to tears, may extort our admiration for her "accomplishment," but she will never leave us stronger; she has made us pay a price, and made us pretend we like it, but we leave the theatre moved only by our capacity to be moved.

It occurred to me then that my mother was a better actor than I ever hoped to be. Acting is different that posing or pretending. When done with precision, it bears a striking resemblance to lying. Stripped of the costumes and grand gestures, it presents itself as as an unquestionable truth.

If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character motivations.

keep me from ridin' trail. But you're acting

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.

I never really absorbed myself in a role like some actors do.

I plan to take time out and read, learn, and absorb more about acting.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

I just can't imagine having to do an accent all the time - like, in your whole career.

In 'Shirin Farhad' I play the character of a Parsi woman. Though I was born a Parsi, in a Parsi family, I don't have the right accent.

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

It's easier to act in your own accent.

If I'm playing an Indian in a Hollywood film, I won't do it in any funny Indian accent.

Why is it when a white actor or even a black actor does a British accent, it's considered art?

Even if I know that people can hear my French accent, my goal is to provide the best English as possible when I act.

I could never get cast with an Indian accent. I was not getting cast.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

I love playing characters with different accents. It's a lot of fun.