Acting is happy agony.
We need to stop talking and start acting, and I am more than eager to be part of that change.
If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.
It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.
There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.
When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
I'm not an actor. Lord knows, I'd be acting if I were an actor. What you see is what you get.
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.
I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.
So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.
Crying does not equal good acting.
I have always been down to test what I can do and push the limits of my acting. I have always wanted to try new genres and stuff - but I love comedy. I grew up on comedy, and I love having a good time and making people laugh. But it is also really nice to switch it around and make people think and feel some darker emotions.
I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.
The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.
Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.
My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.
I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.
I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.
One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.
I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.
When I discovered acting, I decided that's what I wanted to do above everything else. It was the first time I was passionate about anything.
I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.
I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
I've always loved movies, so I tried to get into an acting school. I saw an ad for the Oscar school on the back of 'The Irish Times,' and I went along for an audition, very pragmatically, to see if I could do it or not.
I'm almost sometimes too subtle in my acting.
I like talking. I like acting.
The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers.
I began auditioning for acting jobs at the ripe old age of 12. Thirty years later, including a 15-year run on television, I sometimes just get offers for work. Often, however, I am still required to run pell-mell around Los Angeles or New York, interviewing for film and TV jobs.
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.
