1,862 Quotes About Acting

Generally, a film reflects life but it looks unreal when the actors do not look at the camera while speaking, thinking or doing anything. In real life, we see in every direction but the performers do not do so in the movies. Indeed, the actors should not look at the camera repeatedly but they can do so in a natural way. So, though there are certain exceptions where the actors talk or think by facing the camera directly, the films cannot be called a perfect reflection of life.

Shit, you shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.

Actors--a stage kiss is only meant to last ten seconds. Any longer and it is considered abuse, dear.

But I will relate what happened with absolute honesty; that, perhaps, will help me understand it. After all, when one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a person that observes and narrates it and no longer the person that performed it.

A lot of actors don't like to play the fool. They feel it weakens them in some way.

An actor does not figure out how to say the lines that are written for a character. An actor figures out why a character says the lines.

The main goal of an audition is to prepare, execute what you have prepared and walk away without any regrets.

As a beginning actor, your focus should be on developing as an artist. An artist expresses original ideas. Or he expresses old ideas in an original way.

I love it when you go to see something, and you enter as an individual, and you leave as a group. Because you've all been bound together by the same experience.