Acting Quote by Anthony Hopkins Download Open image “Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.” — Anthony Hopkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acting Brain Brain surgery Entertainment Surgery Theatre
If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people. — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back. — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts,… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
It's not all about acting. It's about giving an art of entertainment to humanity. — Sean Berdy Copy Share Image
Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment. — Tina Yothers Copy Share Image
It was an accident, although Ive been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child in school, music,… — James Dean Copy Share Image
It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school,… — James Dean Copy Share Image
The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
The interesting thing with acting, actually, is that you get to be so many different people that you get to do so much research… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won't mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but I thought,… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Most of my last 30 years have been like that. Results and manifestations of things I'd dreamed of as a young kid and wanted… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more now because… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid… — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
It was only when I went to acting school that I was like, "You are absolutely such a pigheaded freak show that you thought… — Giles Matthey Copy Share Image
It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling… — Ryan Newman Copy Share Image
The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting.… — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
