Acting Quotes
307 quotes
"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie."
"Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously."
"Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility."
"A chance meeting in a Kansas City coffee shop may take me months of planning and twice a day visits for over a year. But I already have my stunned, surprised, and shocked speech rehearsed for the moment I act like I had no idea she would be there."
"I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me."
"My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action."
"Death is just the last scene of the last act."
"If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence."
"I don't belive in God. I believe in...Al Pacino."
"To be too knowing is a downfall."
"Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination."
"...if the actor gave his performance without knowing that he was in a play, then his tears would be real tears and his life a real life. And whenever I think of this pain and joy that rise up in me, I am carried away by the knowledge that the game I am playing is the most serious and exciting there is."
"Never give all the heart, for loveWill hardly seem worth thinking ofTo passionate women if it seemCertain, and they never dreamThat it fades out from kiss to kiss;For everything that's lovely isBut a brief, dreamy, kind delight.O Never give the heart outright,For they, for all smooth lips can say,Have given their hearts up to the play.And who could play it well enoughIf deaf and dumb and blind with love?He that made this knows all the cost,For he gave all his heart and lost."
W.B. Yeats, In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age
"I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine - anything from a mutated baddy in a comic book action thriller, to a detective. If anything, I'd like Gary Oldman's career: he's the perfect example of it. I've love to have a really broad sweep of characters - to be able to do something edgy, surprising and unfashionable."
"At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. Apparently, I’m too “vulnerable” for ferocity. I’m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all."
"ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously."
"All the world's a stage."
"Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth."
"Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you."
"Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness."
"The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors."
"Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant."
"A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience."
"Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
"Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking."
"Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up."
"Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs."
"Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness."
"Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again."
"Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not."
"By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy."
"If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking."
"And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog."
"Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits."
"That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors."
"Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?"
"Success involves failing first. Ask any successful person. Ask any experienced person, really. It's all part of the creative process, so sit back and allow the artist within you to sprout, blossom and flourish. You must accept that your first, second, and third attempt at something might suck. It's a necessary step in improving your skill. Failure is your teacher, not your judge."
"There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs."
"You have to be an Actor to face life not the camera."
"Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner."
"Do not recite words just to prove to yourself and others that you know and love God; for he already put his breath and light inside you. Instead, put truth in your every word and action, and always let your conscience steer and guide you."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Do not get down on your knees to pray just to show God that you always remember him. Instead stay on your feet, and always do as he would do in place of him."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"You face an audience and prepare to speak. Fear will be there, if you're alive. There is, of course, no shortage of feeling up there. It is an extreme act, unusual, testing you in unparalleled ways. It speaks to the core of who you are, and why you do what you do. These challenges, they exist in life and become acute on stage."
"If you don't lose first you are not entitled to win."
"A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned."
"The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind."
"I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor!"
"Even the world’s greatest actor cannot fake an erection."
"Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled."
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