Browsing Topic Best Acting Quotes

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

I want to show another side of Middle Easterners. My hope is that I would be able to play a variety of parts, and not always be the guy with the accent.

There’s this long tradition of non-Jews playing Jews, and not just playing people who happen to be Jewish but people whose Jewishness is their whole being. . . . One could argue, for instance, that a Gentile playing Joan Rivers correctly would be doing what is actually called ‘Jewface.’

If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That’s still incoherence. It’s not enough just to engage in positive thoughts when you have negative thoughts registered, because they keep on working and will cause trouble somewhere else.

It’s important for me to be free and know I’m acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that’s important. You want to be your own person.

For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

I don’t have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

I’m an artist. Artists don’t need permission to work. Regardless of whether I’m acting or not, I write. I write when I’m tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. As for myself, I’m not really sure who I am. I change every day.

The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.

I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I’m acting. I just love characters and stories with conflict.

Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have of myself, I’m unhappy. Then it’s a miserable existence. I’m putting a piece of myself out there. If it doesn’t do anything, I feel so ashamed. I’m afraid I’ll be the kind of actor who thought he would make a difference and didn’t. Right now, though, I feel like I made a little bit of difference.

Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It’s not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it.

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they’re great actors. When they’re acting, that’s the craft.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid – I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

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.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

You can’t expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you’re thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you’re seeking- that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.

My step-father, who is a Marine, introduced me to the Marine Corps’ Officer scholarship that could get me a degree, help me grow up and I can still pursue a future in acting after my time in service.

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it’s a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That’s what acting is about.