“I think acting is a gift. I think certain people for some reason just have a gift that they were meant to perform.” PeopleThinkingReasonCertainActing Author:Jonathan Jackson
“I'm lucky that I got to start acting when I was so young, and people put me in these movies. A lot of people don't get to play these parts because they start a little older.” PeopleLittlesPlayYoungActingLucky Author:Nat Wolff
“I figure I just keep working and let the chips fall where they may, and if that means I end up having an eclectic career, so be it. For me to try to manipulate things or for me to try to tell people or the system how it should be...I'm just a kind of a more go-with-the-flow guy when it comes to my acting career.” PeopleIfsShouldTryingKindMayMeanEndsGuyFallActingCareersFiguresFlowChipsManipulateEclectic Author:Clint Howard
“Ever since I started acting, I've always spoken to our people about identity. I've spoken to kids, telling them: "Where do I get my strength to push through the barriers to get me where I'm at today? It's my culture and my traditions, you know?” PeopleKnowsKidsTodayCultureActingIdentityTraditionBarriers Author:Adam Beach
“I'm still learning to be the best actor I can be, and I have a long way to go to get to the level I would like to be at. My focus is still 100% acting acting acting. Once I hit a point where I feel very comfortable as an actor - because you can never stop learning, I don't care how comfortable you get, you can never stop learning - but once I hit a point where I can get that comfort level of taking on the task of directing and having the confidence in myself to have people's respect when I give them direction, that's definitely something I want to do someday.” PeopleWayWantGivingFeelsLongStillsI CanCareActorsLevelsActingFocusComfortComfortableTasksDon't CareI Don't CareBeing The BestSomedayLong WayLong Way To GoNever Stop Learning Author:Sean Faris
“My dissatisfaction with acting has nothing to do with being uncomfortable or vulnerable or feeling like people are going to criticize me. That's not the problem.” PeopleFeelingsProblemActingVulnerableUncomfortableCriticizeDissatisfaction Author:Joaquin Phoenix
“I'm very thankful for the people that I've had the opportunity to work with. I have a good life. It's been amazing. I'm not complaining. It's not like acting has ruined me so I have to leave. It's not that. I'm just done with it.” PeopleDoneOpportunityActingComplainingGood LifeRuinedVery Thankful Author:Joaquin Phoenix
“There are certain aspects of acting that I don't like. I'm not a person who loves being on set. I mean, I know people that have their espresso machines in their trailers and they like being in there and they put pictures on walls. But I don't like it. I don't like sitting around.” PeopleKnowsMeanPersonsCertainLove IsActingWallSittingAspectMachinesSitting AroundTrailersEspresso Author:Joaquin Phoenix
“As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.” PeopleWayLongAbleMovingUsedSpeakSoundActingPeriodsComfortZoneAccentsComfort ZoneLong Periods Of Time Author:Ben Mendelsohn
“Filming is physically and emotionally hard, especially acting in something like this, where we go into the honest feelings of these people. But it's also very exciting because there's an adrenaline that's pumping (through you) when you're doing these scenes.” PeopleHardFeelingsActingHonestSceneExcitingAdrenaline Author:June Squibb
“People are most shocked and most in disbelief that I go to the office every day. I have a job. When I'm not acting on a movie, I go to work, first thing in the morning. I'm at work at 8 o'clock in the morning, and I get home from work at 7 o'clock at night. I treat my job like a job, and I work at it. I think people would probably be most surprised, if I ever calculated up the number of hours I work on an average week and published that. If it was ever documented, I think people would be shocked to find out.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsHomeWould BeJobsNightHoursNumbersActingMorningWeekOfficeTreatsAverageClockShockedDisbelief Author:Ashton Kutcher
“Hopefully we'll get to a point where there are absolutely no restrictions on any kind of violence in movies. I'd love to see us get to a point where you can go to theaters and see movies unrated and that people know its not real violence. It's all pretend. It's all fake. It's just acting. It's just magic tricks.” PeopleKnowsKindRealActingViolenceMagicTheaterTricksHopefullyFakeRestrictionMagic TricksViolence In Movies Author:Eli Roth
“What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting only when they're speaking.” PeopleThinkingUsedActorsActingAuditionsCasting Author:Bryan Cranston
“I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.” PeopleWantVoiceActingPersonalityCraftsNosesFakeDisappointedFake People Author:Spencer Tracy
“I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.” PeopleFirstsSaidActingCurtainsCurtain Call Author:James Stewart
“Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.” PeopleWorldImportantHelpingTogetherHumanityForcePeaceCommonActingMusicThis WorldPreservesGreat PowerWedgesCommon Humanity Author:Ted Turner
“I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.” PeopleMindLittlesKidsWaitingChangeActingTalkingCreativeFourMinutesMonthsSixCoachesQuittingLeagueCoachingSix MonthsJuiceGreat TimesLittle LeagueTalking About MeCreative Juices Author:James Caan
“The weird job of acting is that it is so simple. You just see the person in the situation. It is whatever you have to do to get there. Some people want to stay up all night or cut their toe off. For me it is a bunch of reading, and hanging out with real people, I do that. You never know what you are going to get. It might be the shoes people wear.” PeopleKnowsWantPersonsRealMightJobsNightReadingSimpleActingSituationCuttingShoesBunchHanging OutToesAll NightUp All Night Author:Jason Isaacs
“My acting started with musicals in elementary school, so singing is something I've always done, never done professionally - so you're not going to find me on "The Voice" or anything - but it is something that I have a lot of fun doing, and can do well enough to keep up with people in shows.” PeopleWellsDoneEnoughShowsSchoolFunVoiceCan DoActingSingingFind MeElementary School Author:Clayton Snyder
“I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path.” PeopleWantWritingStillsActingCareersPathFocused Author:Julianne Hough
“I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.” PeopleHardMy OwnActingTeachDogMethodTricksBackgroundsOld DogUndercover Author:Mekhi Phifer
“I really just enjoy listening to talk [to John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling]... not even about acting or anything. It's interesting because I felt really connected to all these people very easily. They're all very open emotionally, like we're in the scene together, so you never feel like anyone's acting.” PeopleFeelsTogetherFeltEnjoyHurtInterestingActingListeningSceneConnectedCharlotte Author:Kirsten Dunst
“In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified for a life in this profession or in this endeavor by checking yourself out and acting every day, getting plays and scripts and getting together with people and divvying up the parts and acting in one way or another, or writing things.” PeopleWayWritingPlayFactsTogetherActorsViewsActingScriptsProfessionOne WayEndeavorQualified Author:Jeff Goldblum
“I think I've grown up in an era where character acting on film has become less desirable for the producers and directors and therefore the audience. They have got used to the people that those actors really are.” PeopleThinkingCharacterFilmUsedActorsActingAudienceDirectorsProducersErasDesirable Author:David Suchet
“Some people are good at performing in front of people like that, but I'm uncomfortable at it. I think maybe that's the difference between acting and being a performer. I don't think I'm a natural performer.” PeopleThinkingNaturalDifferencesActingFrontsPerformingUncomfortablePerformers Author:Kristen Stewart
“Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.” PeopleKindSometimesPlayCharacterActingLike YouOpposites Author:Dakota Fanning
“Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.” PeopleThinkingEndsNightNextActingEnemyBeatsNext DayAll NightRigidityUp All Night Author:Jay Baruchel
“I started doing roles and working with people that I really respected and became passionate about the art form of acting. And I'm still trying to figure it out. Still learning.” PeopleTryingArtStillsFormActingRolesFiguresPassionate Author:Logan Lerman
“I meet a lot of young people that want to go into acting because they think of what it will do for them. If that's the case, it can be a very, very painful profession. But if the kids want to do acting because they love it, and they want to give to it, then they can have a great life. It's really about as simple as how you look at it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantGivingLooksKidsYoungSimpleActingCasesPainfulProfession Author:Ethan Hawke
“I'm sure at one point I will do some acting again, but it would have to be the right thing. I'm not going to do it just because people are offering it to me. Not for those box-office, bullshit, money, noncreative people. But I'll do it when it's right to do it.” PeopleActingOfficeBoxesRight ThingOfferingBullshitCreative PeopleBox Office Author:Lenny Kravitz
“I can't do modeling disconnected. And I thought, "What do I like? What do I love about modeling?" And what I love is that it's such a creative process, with a bunch of people, and I wanted that more, which is how the acting thing came about.” PeopleI CanWantedProcessLove IsActingCreativeBunchCreative ProcessModelingDisconnected Author:Agyness Deyn
“The thing I love about acting is getting to change and look at different people in different lives and do different projects.” PeopleLooksDifferentActingProjectsDifferent PeoplesThings I LoveDifferent Life Author:Keira Knightley
“I've been acting my whole life, which people don't realize. I just haven't had the opportunities that I've had with my dancing.” PeopleWholeOpportunityRealizingActingHavensDancingWhole Life Author:Julianne Hough
“Early on - certainly in acting - you really have to take whatever you can get. So I understand well how difficult it can be to be in this position where people are just not hearing what you're trying to say or are saying. I recognize that.” PeopleTryingWellsDifficultActingPositionHearing Author:Oscar Isaac
“I want to be acting until the day I die. I want to be in movies and working with people who push me to be a better actor. That's what I look forward to, and that's what's important to me.” PeopleWantLooksImportantDiesActorsActingWhat's Important Author:Kellan Lutz
“I always liked performing. I always liked being in front of people. That's one of the things I loved about law; we had mock trials, and I got to go up and state my case. But I took an acting class, and after my first class, I was hooked.” PeopleFirstsStatesLawActingClassCasesFrontsTrialsPerformingMockHookedFirst ClassActing Classes Author:Ashley Greene
“I would like to continue acting. I tell people I can't go back to real life. I have to see how far I can go with it. I am serious about it, and I believe that it's my calling. I think it's what my life's path is. It's what God has given me. It's what I was born to do. And so I must do it.” PeopleThinkingBelieveI CanRealGivenI BelieveBornActingPathSeriousCallingReal Life Author:Gabourey Sidibe
“I realized that after finding this thing that allowed me to express myself - acting - and being encouraged by a few people that I could do it, I had kind of grabbed onto it and dug in my claws in a way that was maybe a bit unhealthy. I allowed myself to get into a headspace where I lived or died by what I achieved in this particular field.” PeopleWayKindBitsActingFieldsParticularFindingsDiedI RealizedUnhealthyClaws Author:Andrew Garfield
“I was never strategic really, but back when I was starting out no one cared. In the acting community, box office didn't matter. I really think it was a mistake when they started paying people like $20 million to do a movie because now it's all people think about. Is she worth it? Is he worth it?” PeopleThinkingMatterCommunityActingMistakeMillionsOfficeStartingBoxesWorth ItStrategicBack WhenBox OfficeStarting OutNo One Cares Author:Winona Ryder
“People say, "Why is it that you love to act?" And you want to say, "Well, most of acting is sitting in your trailer, either bored or worried about the scene coming up." A lot of it is about things you don't really like, so it's a wonder why acting is such a huge draw, why everyone loves it so much.” PeopleWantWellsActingWonderHugeSceneDrawsSittingWorriedBoredOne LoveTrailers Author:Anjelica Huston
“I mean I don't think it got me interested in acting. I think it might be what makes it so that I can have the idea of the variety of people in the world, different incomes. That helps. When you're going to play someone it's interesting and nice to see experiences that aren't like yours. But there's always the remarkable similarity of all people.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanI CanIdeasDifferentPlayHelpingMightInterestingActingNiceLike YouIncomeVarietyRemarkableSimilarity Author:Peter Sarsgaard
“I'm 35 but because I've been acting professionally playing women since I was eighteen years old - I never played a teenager - people constantly think I'm like ten years older than I am, which is a little hard on my ego.” PeopleThinkingYearsLittlesHardActingTenEgoTeenagerEighteenEighteen Years Old Author:Laura Benanti
“I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.” PeopleThinkingWantCareActingDon't CareI Don't Care Author:Kelli O'Hara
“I'm not a victim. And the people who are victims of something, my heart is completely with them. But I'm not. I know I've been treated like a woman in this business [acting]. I mean I've got lots of stories, but they don't have any control over me.” PeopleKnowsHeartMeanStoriesActingMy HeartVictimTreated Author:Kelli O'Hara
“Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.” PeopleKindActorsWaitingRoomsActingBreakCuttingDirectorsDirectCategoriesBreaking DownActing In Movies Author:Dustin Hoffman
“Acting is so much fun. It is a different ball game and I want to concentrate on that at the moment. I'm really passionate about what I do. I love entertainment and telling stories to people and I am very lucky that I am doing what I want to do.” PeopleWantDifferentMomentsStoriesGamesFunActingLuckyBallsPassionateEntertainmentTelling StoriesBall Games Author:Britney Spears
“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.” PeopleKnowsActorsActingCriticalCraftsReally GreatJudgmentalGreat ActorsJudgmental People Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people. Terror was brought to many countries on his direct orders and in his name, against men, women and children, Christians and Muslims. Osama Bin Laden claimed to be acting in the name of Islam, but in reality he made a mockery of the basic values of his and all other religions.” PeopleMenChildrenMadeCountryRealityChristianValuesOrderNamesActingDirectResponsibleIslamTerrorInnocentMen WomenBin LadenMockeryOsama Bin Laden Author:Angela Merkel
“Maybe at the core of me, I'm a survivor, but I don't do it on purpose. Sometimes, in acting of course with your performance, some of your own personal character seeps through. My performance goal has always been to perform for the audience. People pay their hard earned money, and so I always desire to give all of myself in every single scene.” PeopleGivingSometimesHardCharacterDesirePurposeCoursesGoalPayActingAudienceScenePerformancesCoreSurvivorPersonal Character Author:Paula Patton
“It's hard to get money to support your [non-profit] organization if you have no evidence. It's very much like the acting business: You need an agent and manager so you can get a job to get resources, but you can't get an agent and a manager unless people see your work.” PeopleIfsNeedsHardJobsActingSupportEvidenceResourcesOrganizationProfitAgentsManagersGet MoneyNon Profit Author:Sonja Sohn