Acting quotes
608 acting quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines“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.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: so they pretend they are someone else.”
“The play is not in the words, it's in you!”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.”
“I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.”
- From the movie: The Gentlemen
“If you wish to be the king of the jungle, it's not enough to act like a king. You must be the king. There can be no doubt. Because doubt causes chaos and one's own demise.”
“Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.”
- From the movie: Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
“I believe it's the job of an actor - and I say actor, not actress because the word actress is nonsensical - it's the actor's job to avoid impediments to their performance. It's the actor's job to strive for one hundred percent effectiveness.”
“To do all your own stunts, you have to be so strong.”
“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.'”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“There's a special excitement in playing a man who made a hole in history large enough to be remembered centuries after he died.”
“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.”
- La trovi in History of Cinema in Quotes
“My argument in defense of make-up stems to 1932 when I won an Academy Award for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. At that time I too was a young leading man. I accepted the role because it afforded me the opportunity to do something besides smile and make love to lovely leading ladies.”
- La trovi in Body Obsession
“The day I need make-up I will quit filming.”
“Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“The whole thing is to keep working and pretty soon they'll think you're good.”
“Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.”
“It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.”
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