Quotes About Acting

I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.

I booked a horror film called 'Where the Devil Hides.' It's... you know, a horror film. But it was the first full-length movie I'd ever done, and it got me my visa, and I could start work.

When I read 'The Water Diviner,' I was having the same kind of visceral reaction that I would normally have acting in something. I believed that I was the only person that could tell this story the way it needed to be told. That's the real arrogance of a director!

I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.

I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the room. I hated all the attention, which is such a stupid thing for an actor to say.

I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

As an actor, when you're winning the moment over, there's a truth to your intention. You might laugh at it or you might cry at it, but I think your visceral reaction to it is a reaction to the truth of the moment.

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

The better the acting is, the less visible the director and the less visible the actor.

My job as an actor is to be visible and to tell stories.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

I was a glamorous actress in Mumbai. I had done Sanjay Gupta's 'Musafir.' I wanted to know how Buddhada thought of me in the role of Supriya, Rahul Bose's unhappy wife in 'Kaalpurush.' It needs a visionary film-maker to see an actor in a role that seems very removed from her real personality or on-screen image.

She felt like a bad actress in a play she never wanted to be in.

All the world's a stage we're going through.

I learned how to act by watching Martha Graham dance and I learned how to dance by watching Charles Chaplin act.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

As I have often said, she has two styles of acting: with or without the beard.

not like Nicolas Cage who always just plays Nicolas Cage in every film. Daniel

A Master Craftsman of Acting, like Daniel Day-Lewis, spends years selecting, preparing, and acting for just a single film. He is not like Nicolas Cage who always just plays Nicolas Cage in every film.

For there's a lot of masochism in the acting profession. We're willing to take a lot of punishment, but the minute we hit a little bit of success we are liable to run from it. We're frightened of it and develop all kinds of phobias as a consequence. Outsiders who don't understand think we have a chip on our shoulder, but it's not that at all. We're so used to failure, to being hurt and rebuffed, that we can easily come unhinged by success.

It's called acting. It's not all that difficult to be the person people expect you to be. It's harder to remember who your really are.

Act the part and you will become the part," and "Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Inhabiting a place that could not be home, they were like actors compelled to play themselves.