Quotes About Acting

It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

For all of [Fanny] Ardant's ability to depict a range of emotion, I most associate her with joy. Not necessarily the depiction of joy, but rather a joy of acting, a joy of being, a joie de vivre . Ardant, in her mature performances, conveys the sense of someone bringing to scenes her full being, her whole self and experience. There is an understanding of the value of life in such moments, in the value of the moments themselves.

Clark Gable once said to me, 'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part.

Rol yapmak hepimizin hoÅŸuna gider küçük bey, hiç kimse kendisi deÄŸildir, baÅŸkalar?n?n yarat?lar?d?r.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'

On 'The Office ' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

We did not stage kiss because we didn't know any better. It was just lights, camera, tongue-dance.

One of the unexpected and wonderfully fair things I have learned in my career is that if Hollywood were filled just with perfect-looking people, then soap operas would be the most-watched things in the world. But they're not. Looks are great, but they're not compelling enough. I've noticed that successful actors with long careers are usually talented actors with charismatic screen presences, and all of them exude one thing: confidence.

I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy.

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

Dobar je glumac onaj kome publika vjeruje da je iskren

This is a book about worshiping the true God and letting the true God act in us. It tells us as plainly as possible that the true God is a God who cannot stop giving and forgiving, and that our knowledge of this true God is utterly bound up with our willingness to receive from the hand of God the liberty to give and forgive.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.

Theater and cinema are worn-out moles of acting talent that goes under the skin of time.

For the actor, everything seems real; whether it is in acting or by carrying out his daily tasks.

The greatest way to become an actor is to get married too early.

What are the relative risks of ignoring scientific claims that turn out to be true versus acting on claims that turn out to be false?194 The risks of not flossing are real, but not inordinate. The risks of not acting on the scientific evidence of climate change are inordinate.