Act Quote by Ian Mckellen Download Open image “How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.” — Ian Mckellen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Act Film How Person Play Portraying Pretend Well
I am a bad actress. I know I am. I am realistic. I can't even lie properly; how can you expect me to act? — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this thing, and… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
What I do is I don't act a part, I give a piece of myself. Old friends that have known me for a long… — Roland Møller Copy Share Image
That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says,… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I think the best advice I got is that acting isn't acting - you just want to just be, you want to be just… — Randy Orton Copy Share Image
Just be yourself. As an actor, you pretend all day - that's what the job calls for. So, when it comes to my personal… — Justin Chon Copy Share Image
If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that… — Peter Sarsgaard Copy Share Image
I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time. — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants… — George Raft Copy Share Image
The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'.… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Elijah looks angelic but his beauty of spirit is what makes his Frodo leap out of the screen. Unalloyed goodness is one of the… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK,… — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s… — Vashti Quiroz-Vega Copy Share Image
I always advise people not to act upon the advice that I give them. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
On 'Workaholics,' I feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on 'Mindy,' I'm around professional funny people who act.… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image