Acting Quote by Quentin Tarantino Download Open image “I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.” — Quentin Tarantino ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acting Character Roles Stories Thinking
I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life. — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where… — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
If it's a good story or if it's a character I want to act in, I end up wanting to do it. — Kwak Dong-yeon Copy Share Image
I've made a career of taking roles that other actresses didn't want. — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than… — Tammy Blanchard Copy Share Image
I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of agency-less childhood… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
Although I’ve played a wide variety of roles, I’ve never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me. It’s a… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for… — Sibel Kekilli Copy Share Image
CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, most of the books written about the subject aren't very good because they just focus on the more hateful movies that they did very early, early on when they were trying to, you know, get Germany into the war, whether it be anti-Semitic movies like "Jud Suss," or "The Eternal Jew," or movies made against the Polish to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share
I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually really liked… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' -… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I'm not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it? — Quentin Tarantino 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 great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be. — Kenny Wormald Copy Share
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 as something mercurial that required all the right conditions, but now I know that even if I don't get any sleep, I can still work, I can power through. The stars don't have to be perfectly… — Laura Regan Copy Share
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