Quotes About Acting

I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.

Stop thinking like a madman, or you will end up acting like an ass.

Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

when you are shooting a television show, time is more important than any one performance. If you are doing a bad job at acting, I had learned, they will not bother to tell you. That would be a waste of time, and it might put you into an emotional hole that would also waste time. And by the same token, I had learned that when they say you have done a good job at acting, they are probably lying.

The point was - he wasn't acting . It was as if he'd forgotten how! Jack still knew his lines, but he was out of character... Jack had stopped acting. He was just Jack Burns - the real Jack Burns at last.

But not even a drunk can sleep through Boellmann's Toccata—not even outside the church, apparently. Alice enjoyed acting out how the drunken down-and-out had presented himself.

It's a good job to lose!" Jack called after them, but they kept walking. He was so bad as Melody, even Wild Bill Vanvleck would have made him repeat the line. The point was—he wasn't acting. It was as if he'd forgotten how! Jack still knew his lines, but he was out of character. He had a sister, and he loved her; she'd said she loved him, too. Jack had stopped acting. He was just Jack Burns—the real Jack Burns at last.

But he was not acting in this performance—they were.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

I was drawn to acting because it was the one place that I found an emotional outlet.

I personally like a little rehearsal, not if I'm gonna have a super emotional scene you wanna have it be a fresh thing.

I was in the car driving back, after having done a scene where I kill somebody, and I just said to the driver, "I can't talk right now. I'm too emotional." The whole car ride back, I was just crying.

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.

Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.

If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.

I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.