Quotes About Acting

I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

People often say that an actor 'plays' a character well, but that's an amateurish notion. Developing a characterization is not merely a matter of putting on makeup and a costume and stuffing Kleenex in your mouth. That's what actors used to do, and then called it a characterization. In acting everything comes out of what you are, or some aspect of who you are.

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

Entre sus últimas palabras dirigidas a sus amigos reunidos, antes de un largo beso a Livia, deslizó una cita taimada de una comedia griega: «Si he representado bien mi papel, aplaudid».

By loving, the man acts on himself by acting on the image of his own love with Holiness and then on the Destiny which is the image of the Love of this world.

If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.

Commissioner Farley has had a major heart attack. He may not make it. He wants to see his grandson now." Bruno was a good actor. He stared straight into the young counselor's eyes. "We've been warned to take particular care of Timmy," Toby said

Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!

I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.

But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.

There are few things more nerve-racking than trying to act normal with a camera in your face and someone shouting at you to "act normal.

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.

Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.