Quotes About Acting

I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.

That's a tough question I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

According to Epictetus, we should keep firmly in mind that we are merely actors in a play written by someone else—more precisely, the Fates. We cannot choose our role in this play, but regardless of the role we are assigned, we must play it to the best of our ability.

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Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

The world has been doing little else but playing at make-believe all its lifetime.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

All professions have some element of theater to them.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, 'Give me a break.'

I learn the lines and pray to God.