Quotes About Acting

Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.

Oh my God, no, no chance, no chance. That [kissing her co-stars]s not in my contract!

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!

I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.

Just concentrate on thinking and living and acting in harmony with God's laws and inspiring others to do likewise.

I was excited about working with Richard Gere. Oh, and Joan Allen! Oh, my God, she is such a force of nature, it's mind boggling.

I keep God first. He me to go out and act and be humble and keep it simple. God gave me this gift to bless the world. That's what I'm here to do.

I put Liam at the top of the list, the male actor list, because I had just seen Schindler's List again and Michael Collins, and I was just like, 'God, what an incredible actor.'

I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.

I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.

You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her 'Royal Higness' & she answered, 'Yes, my Guardian.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

I don't think I"m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well.

Consistency is the death of good acting.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

Actors are very good at not revealing anything, so they're safe.

But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.