Top 25 Film Acting Quotes

Getting Lurch’s character straightened out was fun because I was brand new to professional film acting. I had only been in radio up till then as an announcer or a program director.

Film acting, if you don’t play the lead, you come, and you do your scenes in a few days, and you act with a couple of colleagues. All the rest of the actors you never see, and you don’t even meet many of them. And you don’t know what will happen with what you’ve done. Maybe it will be in the film, maybe it will not.

Every time I’ve crossed to a new level of film acting, the film has been a breakthrough project.

I’ve been doing theatre for years, but film acting has broadened my horizon.

Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director’s eyes, you ‘get it right’ does not allow for very much creative freedom… In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.

I don’t have any plans to pursue film acting. It’s not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it’s with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.

Frankly, I think I’m marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That’s been my experience of film acting.

I find in film acting that however many years you have done it for, you can feel totally relaxed and at ease with the people around you, absolutely wonderful, then roll camera and a little part of you goes, ‘Ugh’. It is learning how to manage that.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

The difference – the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

Reviews about film acting are very… tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

Film acting is one of the only industries where you’re criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it’s considered a quality and something to behold.

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don’t train – at all really – for film acting. It’s mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

Film acting is so different from theatre acting, and TV is about letting things pay off and not winning every scene.

I want to do music, film, acting – all of that kind of stuff.

That’s the thing about film acting and television acting. You just release yourself and do what is true for the moment, and ignore everybody and everything and all the technical razzmatazz that goes on.

Absolutely, ‘Rabbit Hole’ gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.

You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.

I’d definitely like to do some more film acting.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It’s incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

I’ve learnt that there’s acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.

Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.

I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I’ve heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.