The Art of Acting and Filmmaking
Actors' quotes about acting and filmmaking
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This section focuses on the best acting quotes and filmmaking quotes. Each movie star has a different idea of acting and a unique method, just like every director has different ideas on how to make a great movie. Quotes about filmmaking and acting are the core of this section, in which celebrities will welcome you into their world.
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“I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.”
“Acting is largely a matter of farting about in disguises.”
“If it works, that's The Method.”
“Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage.”
“I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.”
“Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.”
“Lubitsch's method of direction was perfect for me. He would act out the whole scene — and then he'd say, 'Now let's see how you'd do it.'”
“A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.”
“I don't go around shooting off my mouth about the problems of acting. In fact I don't even call myself an actor. I'm a re-actor.”
“Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.”
“You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?”
“There's nothing like working with your mates - it's the way it should be, as far as I'm concerned.”
“Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket, the least understood and the least noticed.”
“Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.”
“Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.”
“It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.”
“A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.”
“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs.”
“You treat characters like people you meet in life.”
“Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.”
“I wanted to be an artist. I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Eventually I became an actor so I guess it's a little bit of both.”
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