Acting Quote by Ellen Barkin Download Open image “Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.” — Ellen Barkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acting Giving Matter Secrets
Secrets are great for acting. Secrets are the best thing in the world for acting, because they keep you looking like you have something… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
As an actor, I was taught, from an early age, that secrets are the most powerful thing that you can have on screen, and… — Rose McIver Copy Share Image
There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep. — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth. — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you. — Thomas Kretschmann Copy Share Image
That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it. — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
Acting is revealing the truth that is already within you and that reflects the character that you're doing. — Ron Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother,… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something,… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all. — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women. — Ellen Barkin 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
