Acting quotes

“- Dave Shilling: I don't know anything about a bank robbery. Honest.
- Lew Vogel: Still an unconvincing actor, Mr. Shilling.”
Daniel Mays - Dave Shilling
David Suchet - Lew Vogel

Well, actually I started directing in theatre a few years ago, and I always appreciated my job as an actor, as a craftsman, it seemed to me quite natural to "build" a film altogether.
Sergio Castellitto

“I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.”
Sam Mendes

“Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. ”
Sofia Coppola

“I think cinema is good for incarnating the parts of the mind that you cannot explain.”
Anne Fontaine

“I am very attached to doing realistic films about what I observe.”
Cristian Mungiu

“Dialogue editing is a vital part of editing especially in animated film, but in the end it is usually completely transparent to the audience.”
Lee Unkrich

“You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.”
Lee Unkrich

“Every character when born is a stereotype.”
Michael Patrick King

“The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.”
James Mangold

“Tone is everything in TV.”
Ryan Murphy

“I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time.”
Francis Lawrence

“So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them.”
Joe Dante

“Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.”
Sam Raimi

“In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set.”
King Vidor

“I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.”
Harold Ramis

“No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.”
Harold Ramis

“I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.”
Michael Cristofer

“I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.”
Jonathan Demme

“There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.”
Terrence Malick

All I know is, I don't do a lot of analysis. I know those words have to move me. I rely on the author. I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull. All I want 'em to do is learn the goddamn lines and don't bump into each other.”
Jason Robards

I wanna see a broken man people. I mean broken as in "I hit a baseball through the window" broken. I want you to turn him into mince meat, and I don't even know what mince meat is! I want him to cry for his mommy!

Amanda Bynes - Kaylee

“I had a late-term abortion, went into deep depression, got really into coke, moved to Florida for a year and made a bunch of B-movies for my Eurotrash boyfriend, who wrote and directed and made sure I got my tits out in every other scene.”
Toni Collette - Emily French

Dorothy had already done the centerfold, Miss August. She had already done parts in "Fantasy Island" and "Buck Rogers". Things were moving fast for her. I became very fond of her. She was handling her public visibility very well. She was maturing very fast for 19. But, to me, she was just a friend. Understand? Just a friend.
David Clennon - Geb

“It takes a miracle to get into pictures, and now these two jokers wanna get out.”

Jeff Bergman - Bugs Bunny