Quotes About Acting

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.

I think you chose the wrong career path. You should have gone into acting because you're so good at pretending to be something you're not.

I know you so well. You act like you're so nice. You act like you really care. You act like you truly love me. You act like you understand. You act like you want to see me happy in my life. You know what? Quit acting. I can see right through you and your lies.

Most people who act heartless have a sweet heart. They just act heartless to protect themselves from getting hurt again.

Focus on solutions, instead of your problems, by thinking and acting positively, sound becomes music, movement becomes dance, a smile becomes laughter, and life becomes a celebration.

I aint tired of pretending, I'm terrified of it ending.

If life is a stage, I'd rather be the director because everyone in this world is already acting. I'd love to shout CUT!! When I see them!

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

Of course I acted in school plays but mostly as angels or mushrooms.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

Akki ki is bimaari ki nautanki ke baad to bahut sari filmein aur bada ratna award milna naaki

As WILL embraces her, VIOLA's eyes flicker open (shielded by WILL from the audience) and the lovers look at each other for a moment as WILL and VIOLA rather than as 'ROMEO' and 'JULIET.' Their eyes are wet with tears.

Sin will not only be striving, acting, rebelling, troubling, disquieting, but if let alone, if not continually mortified, it will bring forth great, cursed, scandalous, soul-destroying sins.

I think [doubt is] perceived in this culture as something weak or denatured, and that's a huge mistake. Conviction is what you do to be comfortable, to write The End on thinking. Doubt keeps you in the present, it keeps you conscious and reacting to and acting on what is going on now. It's work, and people like to avoid work.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Go through the motions, Adam." "What motions?" "Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

JOHN WATERS: In Cry-Baby Traci played a sexpot-which is always the best way to rid yourself of an image, by playing it and making fun of it. That's what Johnny Deep did, too. He was on Jump Street, and he hated playing a teen idol, so I said, stick with us; we'll kill that. And we did - in the right way, you know?

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.