Acting quotes

“He agreed with me. What I didn’t tell him was that I just couldn’t go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I’d had enough of the mumbo-jumbo. I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) to me.”

Alec Guinness On George Lucas

“Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.”
Alec Guinness

“Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.”
Marlon Brando

“I didn’t do anything I’ve never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she’s saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic.”
Humphrey Bogart On Ingrid Bergman

“All you owe the public is a good performance.”
Humphrey Bogart

“'Edward Scissorhands' was tough to let go of because I found real safety in allowing myself to be that open, that honest. To explore purity.”
Johnny Depp

“When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.”
Sir Michael Caine

“Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.”
Sir Michael Caine

“The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.”
Sir Michael Caine

“A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.”
Sir Michael Caine

“I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.”
Morgan Freeman

“It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.”
Morgan Freeman

“I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.”
Jeff Bridges

“'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.”
Christian Bale

“You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.”
Christian Bale

“I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.”
Christian Bale

“It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.”
Christian Bale

“In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.”
Robert De Niro

“I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.”
Robert De Niro

“One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.”
Robert De Niro

“It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.”
Heath Ledger

“To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“I get unhappy doing things that I'm not passionate about. Because I feel like I'm squandering this incredible gift I've been given to finance films. As soon as my name alone was enough to make this happen, I vowed to myself that I was going to work with directors who were changing cinema, doing something important, you know?”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.”
Leonardo DiCaprio