Acting quotes
610 acting quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines“My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.”
“I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.”
“I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.”
“I like to disappear into a role.”
“You do as much research as you can for any project.”
“You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“I don't much care to watch myself.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“Acting is like a game of tennis.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people and killers.”
“I think good acting is always character acting.”
“Only a genius can play a fool.”
- La trovi in Reputation and Popularity
“For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“As for making movies, who can act at eight o'clock in the morning? Let's face it!”
“Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think I've gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act.”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time.”
“What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself.”
- From the movie: Sextette
“I'm the girl that works at Paramount all day, and Fox all night.”
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.”
“I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.”
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