Acting quotes
610 acting quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- La trovi in History of Cinema in Quotes
“The reason I'm doing Shakespeare is to see if today's audiences can still relate to that. I'm not old or English, or anything, so this'll prove it once and for all.”
I don't use any particular method. I'm from the "let's pretend" school of acting.
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“No one else can do what I can do. In any medium. That's what I call talent.”
“Clint developed his way of talking [on the screen] by studying the breathy speech pattern of Marilyn Monroe.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“I learned to act on the big screen. I was never a spear carrier. I was always the star. Always.”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“You're acting! Don't act! I don't act, that's why I'm a star.”
- La trovi in Relationships in Hollywood
“There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.”
“An actors most important responsibility is to know lines well.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“Playing Sheldon is just heaven for me. I realize how enormously lucky I am to play a role that makes me so incredibly happy.”
- La trovi in Money and Actors
“I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.”
“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.”
“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.
- From the movie: Tropic Thunder
“I don't drop character 'till I done the DVD commentary.”
- From the movie: Deadpool
“- Blind Al: Looks aren't everything.
- Deadpool: Looks are everything! Ever heard Dave Beckham speak? It's like he mouth-sexed a can of helium. You think Ryan Reynolds got this far on a superior acting method?” - La trovi in Career in Cinema
“I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.”
- From the movie: Hail, Caesar!
- Laurence Lorenz: No, no, you seem to be lingering. It’s interminable the “were”, I’m wondering when it’ll end and we shouldn’t be wondering, should we? We should be marching right along to “so simple”. Would that it were so simple, trippingly.
- Hobie: Would that t’were so simpletrippingly.
- Laurence Lorenz: No, don’t say the word “trippingly... (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Rachel Papers
“Well, that's crap. Who's ever got time to act natural with a girl?”
“Acting takes not only concentration, it takes creativity; it takes... your soul.”
- From the movie: Gosford Park
“- Morris Weissman: How do you manage to put up with these people?
- Ivor Novello: Well, you forget, I make my living impersonating them.” “I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.”
- La trovi in Celebrities on other topics
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