Acting Quotes

4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors

You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more. — Michael Caine
When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only… — Michael Caine
You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it… — Michael Caine
I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being… — Anna Paquin
Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant! — Anna Paquin
There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives. Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and… — Anna Paquin
None of the characters I`ve played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn`t be acting. — Anna Paquin
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. — Gary Oldman
It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. — Christian Bale
Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever… — Christian Bale
When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They… — Christian Bale
Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing.… — Christian Bale
Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience… — Ian Mckellen
Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked… — Ian Mckellen
I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to… — Ian Mckellen
When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in… — Ian Mckellen
I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing… — Ian Mckellen
Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want… — Ian Mckellen
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child. — Ben Kingsley
They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people. — Ben Kingsley
When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'. — Billy Connolly
Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder… — Bette Davis
Acting is pretending to be someone else. — Anna Paquin
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. — Ralph Richardson
With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both… — William Shakespeare

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