I’ve always found that acting has been quite a hard thing to pre-manage because so much of it is spontaneous and the circumstances so uncontrolled.
You’re living your life the entire time in both worlds – it’s not like they say, ‘Action’ and you’re like, ‘Here we go, we’re in this thing,’ because that’s where bad acting comes from.
With any role, you’re extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.
I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but I’ve decided to quit acting. I will not be auditioning for anything anymore, and if I get offered something like a role in a movie or a commercial or something, I will graciously turn it down. It’s been great, but its just not for me anymore.
Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.
I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.
Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable.
Acting careers don’t come out fully formed – not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
I have done hard jobs in the past, and acting isn’t one of them.
The point of acting is to pretend you’re someone else and sell a story.
I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.
Rohit Shetty liked my acting in the movie ‘Theeran,’ which released in 2017. He believed that I would justify the role of a baddie in ‘Sooryavanshi.’
I’m just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City, Kansas. And I always thought that acting was art, writing was art, music was art, painting was art, and I’ve tried to keep that cultural vibe to my life.
When I’m not acting, I do like to take a year off at a time, at least if I can, just in order to keep acting exciting – otherwise I get bored very quickly.
Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, ‘What are you going to do now you’re out of uniform?’ I said, ‘I’m pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,’ and he said, ‘Have you thought about being an actor?’
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one’s ever going to know my name.
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.
When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the whole thing terrifying. I cried myself to sleep once because I thought my teacher was going to give me the lead role. I never imagined acting was a viable career.
Writing is a very strenuous thing – it’s like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer’s room.
Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.
I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.
Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
It was some great times and some great moments… I’m proud to be a WWE alumni. If it wasn’t for my time there, there’s no way I’d be excelling at Fox and acting.
It’s hard to talk about acting because I don’t think it’s quite as explicit as a lot of people might think. And that’s probably the best thing about it.
The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn’t putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It’s believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.
I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it’s kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking… my stomach would just be in knots.
When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.
Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can’t portray when you’re acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you’re acting it’s incredible. But when you’re singing a song and you’re acting it’s even more incredible.
If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there’s no grain of sand to make the pearl.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Half of acting is you’re very intimidated, overcoming your fears, letting yourself be vulnerable in front of people and that sort of stuff.
Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don’t forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I’ll ever achieve.
When I first started acting, I was just crap.
My father owned some Laundromats, and when I was 10, he had me in there making change and being an attendant. He taught me that on weekends, you had to get up and go to work. That has been a big help in acting.
I don’t like acting; not in front of the camera.
Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
I mean, sometimes… a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don’t deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don’t even notice that that’s the thing.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
I’ve been overweight since puberty, so acting was never a dream.
I directed a short series for Hulu called ‘Paloma,’ and being in an editing room, I learned a lot about acting. It gave me a new bolt of energy in terms of my interest in filmmaking because it made me realize how collaborative filmmaking can be and also that you’re not just limited to one job.
It’s bad writing, however naturalistic it’s written, that’s where you have to do your best acting.
I love acting, but it’s much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
I need to go where people are serious about acting.
Will Smith’s acting reaffirms my belief in the American perfection.
I am passionate about acting. ‘Girls in our family are not allowed to act’ is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother, but now no more.
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I’d done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
The only way to play football is with reckless abandon, or they’ll knock your beard off. And with acting, you have to pull all the stops to make it work.
After acting in a critically acclaimed film like ‘Kaaka Muttai,’ I didn’t get any offers for more than a year.
Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like ‘sarcastic’ is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it’s almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it’s not used in the right way.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it’s just not acting. It’s lying.
Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it.
You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
I probably prefer comedy. Why? I’m not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I’m grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.
Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that’s missing.
Acting, for me, has never been about wanting attention or wanting to be seen. It’s funny that I’m in a profession where that’s where I am. There’s so much I want to express; it’s about connecting with another person and the intimacy of what that is, and so I have to overcome my shyness.
Studying acting has been personally enriching because it has taught me to take the time to imagine what someone else’s life experience might be like. To look deeply at how our pasts and the circumstances of our early childhoods mold us as people.
Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.
