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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“Acting is not an art. It's a junk pile of all the arts. But in behalf of my scavenger profession I'll make this boast. An actor is much better off than a human being. He isn't stuck with the paltry fellow he is. He can always act his better and non-existent self.”
“Most heads of studio stop reading scripts when they get their jobs and become hostage to the reports of low-paid readers, who are usually young, frustrated filmmakers.”
The executives who read the script say: "Well, the main character is not very likeable." So without changing what the main character says or does, when I introduce them, I write "Betty, a very likeable person," then they go, "Oh, these changes are wonderful! She really comes alive!" I do that all the time.
“For the most part, young actors in Hollywood are actors by default. They're morons.”
“My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.”
The kids keep telling me I should try this new "method acting" but I'm too old, I'm too tired, and I'm too talented to care.
“Being an actor is always a struggle. Acting is the greatest profession because you're dealing with yourself all the time. It supports the self-discovery process.”
I don't use any particular method. I'm from the "let's pretend" school of acting.
“Clint developed his way of talking [on the screen] by studying the breathy speech pattern of Marilyn Monroe.”
“Method actors give you a photograph. Real actors give you an oil painting.”
“It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.”
“Actors, after all, dream.”
“A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting”
“An actors most important responsibility is to know lines well.”
“I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.”
“The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.”
“In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience.”
“Acting is the ability to dream on cue.”
“The most precious things in speech are pauses.”
“I don't mind nudity; I just don't do it often.”
Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.
“What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. ”
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