acting Quotes

In the many roles I have played in my acting career as military figures, I have simply drawn upon the acts of courage, large and small, I have seen in the men and women with whom I served, and the countless others I met or have come to know through the years.

Opponents criticize Trump for not acting presidential enough; all the while, Obama created and perpetuates the presidential code to demean, disdain and diminish others in light of esteeming himself.

Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don\'t really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they\'d be like, \'Go get that guy Gubler. He\'ll be in your student film.\' I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films.

I never thought I\'d be making a living off of acting - it\'s still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I\'ve worked with.

When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money.

When I first started out acting, I didn\'t have anything to lose. I had another career. If I fell on my face, I could say, \'I\'ll see ya,\' and go back to working.

Staying in Likud means wasting time in political squabbles rather than acting on behalf of the good of the country.

Great stories and acting always win the day. If the story behind the scares is dramatic and the filmmaking is great, it works. If those things aren\'t great and the scares are secondary, it doesn\'t.

One of my acting teachers once said that rejection is God\'s protection. There\'s something in it.

If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don\'t know how long she\'ll run away from it, but it\'s there in her.

All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you want to find the quickest possible version, even if it\'s a leisurely paced film. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It\'s all about editing.

I\'m not an actor. Lord knows, I\'d be acting if I were an actor. What you see is what you get.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn\'t it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it\'s being able - I can\'t tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

I think I\'d rather do [acting] in the real place. It requires different things, working with green screen, but its an imaginative exercise anyway, the whole business of acting, so it just gives you a bit more to feed the imagination. Unless it\'s really silly, just two of you stuck in a space with nothing but green screen that\'s got to be pretty difficult.

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn\'t try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of yourself. If you haven\'t learnt how to make a fool of yourself, you shouldn\'t be on the boards. That\'s absolutely what it\'s all about.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn\'t it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

You can get a bit world-weary in this job, and \'The Passion\' reminded me of what a fantastic job acting is and how lucky I am to be doing it.

Acting is something you didn\'t do in Ireland.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

I\'ve never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn\'t feed my soul.

You have to have the fire in your belly. I\'m having more fun now with acting than I did when I first started out, because I\'m doing it just because I really enjoy it. I\'m not trying to \"make it\" anymore. I\'m not trying to be anything, you know? The biggest this and that for anybody. I\'m just enjoying it.

I still have my original love for acting. That\'s why I feel so lucky. I think that\'s what sustains me in the sort of leaner times.

If the goal is to be believable when you\'re acting, I\'ve got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that\'s a good part for me.

Ideally, that\'s what you\'ve got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.

That\'s kind of the fun part about acting. We do get the right to kind of get from A to Z any way we want, as long as we start at A and end at Z.

Acting in something that I\'m directing... I\'m really enjoying it because, if for no other reason, that particular acting is like reading my mind on every single take. It\'s kind of efficient, for better or worse.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I\'m acting.