Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way. — Edie McClurg Copy Share Image
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive — Bo Bennett Copy Share Image
Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it. — Piper Laurie Copy Share Image
I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
I've often said that I can forgive a shoddy screenplay or bad acting, but I can never forgive bad politics. — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I have always believed that acting is like special effects. If you can see the special effect, then it's a bad special… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
When we went to see the first rough cuts of 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence,' I fell to the floor because my acting… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
You're living your life the entire time in both worlds - it's not like they say, 'Action' and you're like, 'Here we… — Lucas Hedges Copy Share Image
When you see bad acting, that's usually what it is - they're not listening to the other characters. It's always hard with… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were… — Dylan Bruce Copy Share Image
No one will die because of bad acting. No one will die because you missed a cue. We're all human beings. If… — Kate Baldwin Copy Share Image
Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are… — Richard Hornby Copy Share Image
The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
We're not allowed in the cutting room - and that's extraordinary. So, when a director is asking for certain nuances and colours… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
I'm happy to say that I have not been fired off a film. The score is usually the last thing to be… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
What I like about [Berthold] Brecht, it's very interesting. When Helene Weigel came over and somebody talked about Lotte Lenya and said… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
I have an appreciation for what some people would call "bad acting," but which I think can be much more real than… — Bruce LaBruce Copy Share Image
You can't have the real thing on camera - that's the nature of cinema. When you see people like Daniel Day-Lewis and… — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said,… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
The big turning point came when I played in the pit orchestra for a production of SWEENEY TODD and I spent most… — John Cariani Copy Share Image
![“What I like about [Berthold] Brecht, it's very interesting. When Helene Weigel came over and somebody talked about Lotte Lenya and said "well, she wasn't alienating." And Weigel said "No, no, no. Why, Lotte Lenya was so true - who cares?" She said: "Berti only developed the theory of alienation in…” quote by John Hurt](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/586/john-hurt-1669_acting_what-i-like-about-berthold-brecht-it-s-v_1814403.png)
![“I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?” quote by Paul Newman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ef0/paul-newman-2526_acting_i-started-my-career-giving-a-clinic-in-b_953174.jpg)
