Quotes about acting

Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability to enter into contracts, limited liability and perpetual life.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

I think that, too many times, business has been seen as acting in its narrow self-interest rather than, essentially, contributing more broadly to society. I think a lot of that is unintentional; I don't think that many managers are deliberately trying to be unethical or are not trying to be sensitive to social needs.

I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.

I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.

I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

I never was very good at acting. I never was very good at playing the role. Because the true pretending can only come off in our genuine awareness of the real. Only those of us with the most secure grasp on the real can pretend can really be good at the performance. And of course I didn't know what was real I only knew the camera was always on.

Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions they never walk alone!

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.

With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another.

One time I nearly experienced failure was when I was acting in 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' in 1994. One day, I woke up and found that part of my face was paralysed.

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

Scientology helps me in acting to focus on communication.

I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.

The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

I sometimes wish they would swagger more now buy bigger overcoats and wilder hats and retain those traces of make-up that put them outside respectability and keep them rogues and vagabonds which is what at heart - bless 'em - they are.

Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.

I know it was wonderful but I don't know how I did it.

Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold they go to the theatre instead.

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding the chin in doubt and the chin at bay.

There are five stages to an actor's career: who is Herschel Bernardi? get me Herschel Bernardi get me a Herschel Bernardi type get me a young Herschel Bernardi and who is Herschel Bernardi?

On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people then I go home alone.

In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down unless you're a king.

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means a complexity of words movements gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

As an actor he should be an extra in police line-ups.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters but telegrams.

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.

The play's the thing.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

A walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

An actor is a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

An agent is a guy who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what he makes.

Bugs Bunny - the perfect employee. Never absent. Never late. Never changes the script. Doesn't have an agent. Never asks for a percent of the profit. Doesn't ask to have his relatives on the payroll.

In music the punctuation is absolutely strict the bars and the rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does straight to our emotions deep into the twilight room of the soul.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

The best audience is intelligent well-educated and a little drunk.

The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.

When the characters are really alive before their author the latter does nothing but follow them in their action in their words in the situations which they suggest to him.

Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.

There are some great roles - mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength.

Acting is not being emotional but being able to express emotion.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy.

Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

When actors begin to think it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

The live entertainment Canadians like most is the intimate review a collection of songs and sketches preferably with a satirical bias.

Acting is happy agony.

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

When the audience knows you know better it's satire but when they think you can't do any better it's corn.

The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated.

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he is not alone in the way he feels about himself.

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

Many plays certainly mine are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

You need three things in the theatre - the play the actors and the audience and each must give something.

From the point of view of the playwright then the essence of a tragedy or even of a serious play is the spiritual awakening or regeneration of his hero.

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me Ma.'

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

Show business is like sex. When it's wonderful it's wonderful. But when it isn't very good it's still all right.

All the movies used to be 'colossal'. Now they're all 'frank'. I think I liked 'colossal' better.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.