Acting Quotes

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.
Christian Bale

Start, Movie, Rely

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
Natalie Portman

After, Dying, Next

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.
Natalie Portman

Life, Rest, Grown

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.
Laura Linney

School, Pain, Character

I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Business, Thankful, Wrong

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Love, Work, Film

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Play, Nervous, Directing

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Sometimes, Body, Guy

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Great, Pretty, Critical

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Time, Movies, Career

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.
Lillie Langtry

Both, Found, Interest

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
Corliss Lamont

Freedom, Character, True

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.
LL Cool J

Learn, Movie, Craft

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.
LL Cool J

Important, Different, Enjoy

I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.
LL Cool J

Change, Mind, Important

I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.
LL Cool J

School, Mean, Training

What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.
LL Cool J

Cool, Important, Enjoy

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.
Carrie Underwood

Life, Music, Work

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.
Eric Bana

Beauty, Play, Working

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
Vin Diesel

Teacher, Character, Father

Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn't getting any acting jobs.
Vin Diesel

Confidence, Getting, Jobs

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.
Betty White

I just want to bring as much natural as I can. I'm not saying that people who take acting lessons are false. They're much better than I am, but it doesn't work for me.
Betty White

Work, Saying, Natural

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.
Heath Ledger

Mistakes, Made, Film

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.
Heath Ledger

When I'm not acting, I do like to take a year off at a time, at least if I can, just in order to keep acting exciting - otherwise I get bored very quickly.
Heath Ledger

Time, Bored, Keep

I love acting and I have a lot of fun.
Heath Ledger

There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.
Antonio Banderas

Brain, Happen, Before

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
Antonio Banderas

Art, General, Audience

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.
Martin Van Buren

Possible, Within, Left

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