Quotes About Acting

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!

I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Stop feeling alone, start laughing. Stop dreaming, start believing. Stop fighting, start loving. Stop thinking, start acting.

Oh! The story-teller! Oh! The flatterer! Oh! The false one! The cunning rogue! Oh! Molière!" (This was the only writer's name that she knew, but she applied it to me, meaning thereby a person who was capable both of writing plays and of acting them.) "Céleste!" came the imperious cry from Marie, who, not knowing the name of Molière, was afraid that it might be some fresh insult.

Berma in Andromaque, in Les Caprices de Marianne, in Phèdre, was one of

The cat is above all things, a dramatist.

If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene, I do it in private and nobody sees but the bathroom mirror.

An acting teacher friend of mine readies her students for auditions by telling them to imagine placing all the techniques and tools they've acquired into a barrel, and put it on like rodeo clowns do. Not to be glanced at or checked on anxiously, but to be with you and at the ready when the audition demands.

I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

The finest actor is he who play the comedy of life perfectly, as i aspire to do. To walk well, talk well, weep well, laugh well and die well, it is all pure acting, because in every man there is the dumb dreadful immortal spirit who is real- who cannot act, who-is and who steadily maintains an infinite though speechless protest against the body's lies

Tori joined us for dinner --in body, at least. She spent the meal practicing for a role in the next zombie movie, expressionless, methodically moving fork to mouth, sometimes even with food on it.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier