Acting quotes

“Every time I get in front of a camera, I think of it as an attractive man I am meeting for the first time. I find him demanding and aloof -- so I must do all in my power to interest him.”
Capucine

“You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.”
Kate McKinnon

“It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.”
Nick Frost

“I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.”
Nick Frost

“There's a process: you audition, you get rejected, occasionally you get jobs, and it's exciting, but it's all little stepping stones.”
Danielle Macdonald

“To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.”
Rod Taylor

“It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do.”
Christine Baranski

“The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.”
Riz Ahmed

“The true art is being able to take whatever the writer's done, and if it is a bit flimsy or it is a bit rushed or is just box-ticking writing, then the true artist would be able to make that come off the page and sing for an audience or a viewer. I'm still learning how to do that properly.”
Billy Howle

“If you agree to do a sex scene, you have to be willing to not be awkward about it. C'mon! I don't think of it as anything other than a dance, really. I don't see that person. I don't think of me being me.”
Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“Movies were the one thing that I loved my entire life. So I always knew that I wanted to get into acting - I just didn't know when.”
Henry Golding

“I refused to beat my head against stone, of course.”
Herbert Lom

“I may have had some banal roles, but they were never embarrassing.”
John Gavin

“You do a lead in a series, you're kind of in a bubble of self-containment and almost not really present in the world at all. You're really a brand more than a human being.”
Stephen McHattie

“Acting is painting, not photography, but painting is just as 'real' as photography.”
Sir Derek Jacobi

“As an actor conscious that you are in a theatre, you still have to make it look as spontaneous as if you did not know that you are being watched by 1,000 pairs of eyes.”
Sir Derek Jacobi

“I want to be everybody, and I want to be everything. One life is not enough.”
Vladimir Sokoloff

“I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired.”
Lukas Haas

“In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.”
Lukas Haas

“What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?”
Jennifer Ehle

“In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.”
Bill Skarsgård

“When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.”
Chadwick Boseman

“Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.”
Chadwick Boseman

“People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job.”
Travis Fimmel

“Half of acting is you're very intimidated, overcoming your fears, letting yourself be vulnerable in front of people and that sort of stuff.”
Travis Fimmel