Acting quotes
610 acting quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines“It's hard to prove yourself when the substance isn't there in certain roles.”
“You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?”
“Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.”
“I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.”
“I think women, we are very interesting. We have a lot to say, and sometimes it's frustrating how all the lead parts are for men.”
“That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.”
“Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.”
“Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun.”
“It's very strange to become a character: the lines get blurred, and you start to sort of, I don't know, take it home too much?”
“The voice is always the starting place for me with a character.”
“You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.”
“Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.”
“You just have to take control of your own performance.”
“Acting is not about showing what you're feeling. It's about doing something. It's about what you're doing for the other person.”
- From the movie: The Bad and the Beautiful
“- 'Gaucho': To give truth to a performance, there's nothing like love.
- Georgia: Love is for the very young.
- Lila: Love is for the birds!” “All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.”
- From the movie: The Disaster Artist
When I get up on stage in front of people all I can think about is, “What if they laugh at me”. You man, you’re fearless. I want to feel that too.
“For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.”
“Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.”
- From the movie: Pain And Glory
“I've been very lucky to have strong women characters to play.”
“I like the idea of playing people outside of society. That's where I tend to be drawn.”
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