“... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
Working on 'Death In Paradise' is very challenging, but it enables me to go further in my acting. — Josephine Jobert Copy Share Image
I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me… — Saffron Burrows Copy Share Image
Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I don't know acting, but I choose good stories and portray emotions according to the story. — Vijay Antony Copy Share Image
I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
I have done some formal acting training, because I sucked at acting when I first got to Los Angeles. I'm still one… — Eric Andre Copy Share Image
I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities,… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than… — Jeremy Brett Copy Share Image
My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more… — Dana Hill Copy Share Image
Out of the blending of human and animal stories comes the theme that I hope is inherent in all my books: that… — Fred Bodsworth Copy Share Image
I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future… — Laurie Metcalf Copy Share Image
When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality… — Erin Gray Copy Share Image
I am one of the Clave. It's in my blood and bones. So tell me, if you're so sure this wasn't my… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I was acting for years before the band, so I would like to get into that again. — Ashton Irwin Copy Share Image
I remember being on this film once, and people said, 'You're not on Instagram or Facebook - what's your deal?' They said,… — Joe Gilgun Copy Share Image
I'm not going back to acting class, although I've thought of it. The classic training that people get usually when they start… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
I can't tell you about acting. You can develop all the skills, voice, gesture, movement, you can develop by exercise and practice… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
For me acting is pretending. It's illuminating my human struggle - trying to grow and have the courage to be filmed while… — Sherilyn Fenn Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
Coming from the Malayalam sets, when I went to Telugu, people told me that I wasn't acting and that it felt dead.… — Raashi Khanna Copy Share Image
I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play. — Santigold Copy Share Image
Auditioning and actually acting on a set are two different things. When you audition, you're in a room and you don't have… — Adelaide Kane Copy Share Image
When I'm improvising, I'm out of my head. I've done a lot of projects recently where there hasn't been a script. It's… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick? — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea… — Jane Horrocks Copy Share Image
I was mired in modelling and acting. But as I am an outdoors person, I was still trekking and doing some other… — Milind Soman Copy Share Image
I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all… — Jeremy Shada Copy Share Image
I definitely want to get more into the acting. Coming from a background of WWE and being on live television and having… — Kelly Kelly Copy Share Image
Every morning I look in the mirror and make a promise to myself. To stop acting like this today. That Mi Soo… — Na Hae Ryeong Copy Share Image
You know, Longmire and all those other great (whodunit) series, I would love to one of those. We just haven't found the… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
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