Quotes About Acting

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do.

Being Zuckerman is one long performance and the very opposite of what is thought of as being oneself.

I can't believe this is really happening, Caroline said to Wally, both of them wearing their goblin cloaks and hoods. I'm a real actress at last. Do you know where you'll see my name someday? On a tombstone? said Wally. Caroline flashed him a disgusted look. In lights! On Broadway! Someday you and your brothers will go to the movies and see me up there on the screen. If we see you on the screen, we'll ask for our money back, Wally told her.

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.

the acting force in the Sage is the Intellective Principle [the diviner phase of the human Soul] which therefore is itself his presiding spirit or is guided by a presiding spirit of its own, no other than the very Divinity.

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

Variety is not the spice of life. It is the mother of disorder. Individuality is not the hallmark of freedom. It is the essence of decadence. Freedom is slavery to chaos. Unity is peace, all thinking and acting as one.

I told my team, 'I don't want to go out for Asian roles anymore.'

I didn't think it was possible for Asians to be actors.

I never thought an opportunity like 'Crazy Rich Asians' would ever come my way.

My mother never once asked me to stay at home, because she knew acting was something I really wanted to do. She was great.

When I am not acting or practising dance, you'll find me fast asleep!

I enjoy production more than acting, as one is involved in many aspects of film-making.

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.

I always wanted to act, but not because my parents were associated with the industry.

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!

People assume that actors working in films won't have the time to do theatre. But I make sure that whenever I'm free, I watch a play.

People assume that acting is an easy job. When you actually do it, you know how hard that is.

Given how shy I was as a kid, the young me would be astonished to discover that I've made a career out of acting.

Before I was acting, I was extremely athletic and for a lot of time in my life, I didn't know how to deal with the energy that I had to move and use my body in ways.

I try to act with my whole body and, for better or worse, this is the face that's attached to it.

When I changed my degree to acting, I almost gave my parents heart attacks.