“I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.” PeopleDifferentCharacterActorsActingComfortableLike MeEscapismCharacter Actors Author:Alessandro Nivola
“I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.” ImportantDifferentActingGoneFourToolsConservatory Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.” WritingDifferentActingReviewsCompulsion Author:Aleksa Palladino
“Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.” PeopleThinkingDifferentRealPlayFilmActingUniqueTheaterMusclesDisagreeFulfillingComplementDifferent ExperiencesFlexing Author:Eddie Redmayne
“I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.” WayWantDifferentAbleForgetActingAudiencePersonalityShapesFameTheaterTerrified Author:Noomi Rapace
“In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.” TwoDifferentActingSceneDifferent ThingsCatchingPitchingTwo Different Things Author:Robin Tunney
“Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.” PeopleTryingWellsDifferentMomentsActingProjectsApproach Author:Mark Wahlberg
“The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.” DifferentWould BeLife IsActingPressure Author:Melanie Lynskey
“I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.” ThinkingDifferentUseActorsImaginationActingPreparationMy Imagination Author:Edi Gathegi
“I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.” FeelsDifferentActingMusicianSinging Author:Alicia Keys
“What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every way from whom you normally are, the person that you are when you wake up in the morning is who you are in your life. But to take that and have the opportunity to be the complete opposite of that, is the excitement of it.” WayPersonsDoeDifferentOpportunityActingMorningOppositesWake UpWho You AreExcitementComplete Opposites Author:Alicia Keys
“I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for an audience. The more the merrier. I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.” WantLongDifferentPlayFilmActorsHouseActingAudienceMaterialsTvsEmptySeriesIntentionTheatreDistinctionTv SeriesBlockbusterEmpty HousesMore The Merrier Author:Ian Mckellen
“I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.” TwoDifferentCharacterFilmHoursDifferencesActingTelevisionStorytellingCraftsMultiple Author:David Duchovny
“I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.” PeopleDifferentCharacterActingRolesDramaPerceptionRelateInterpretationGreyFlawedConcealing Author:Emraan Hashmi
“Everybody is great and the chemistry is different with everyone. That is the joy of acting - you really don't know how it is going to go until you turn up. It's like playing tennis, you can't plan for the match you are going to play until you are actually up against your opponent and what happens, happens. That is the joy of being on set.” KnowsDifferentPlayHappensJoyTurnsActingKnow HowPlansOpponentsTennisChemistry Author:Tom Hiddleston
“Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It's fun to meet new people and watch them coming along, at different stages of their careers.” PeopleYearsDifferentFunActingCareersWatchesBloodStageMeeting New People Author:Clint Eastwood
“It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.” PeopleWantImportantDifferentHardLightFilmInterestingActingWatchesEatingIllDisorderBalletAestheticEating Disorder Author:Amanda Schull
“I love to work. I know that sounds ridiculous to say because all people love to work, but I love the homework that goes into acting. I love figuring out different ways of playing a scene. I love the energy of being on set. I love not getting enough sleep because I have to wake up early in the morning.” PeopleKnowsWayDifferentEnoughEnergySoundSleepActingMorningSceneWake UpRidiculousDifferent WaysHomeworkUp EarlyEnough Sleep Author:Amanda Schull
“My approach to acting now is so different -- I'm fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [children] my identity was wrapped up in every decision -- now, I don't care.” ChildrenDifferentCareLosesDecisionActingIdentityApproachDon't CareFearlessI Don't CareNothing To LoseActing Now Author:Jessica Alba
“I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.” DifferentDoneStuffActingStyleHavensExploringDifferent Styles Author:Mel Gibson
“Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he loses his moral sense. Instead, it acquires a radically different focus. He does not respond with a moral sentiment to the actions he performs. Rather, his moral concern now shifts to a consideration of how well he is living up to the expectations that the authority has of him.” WellsPersonsDoeDifferentSeemsActionLosesActingMoralFocusAuthorityStandardsExpectationsConscienceConcernBeing TrueAcquireConsiderationSentiments Author:Stanley Milgram
“My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.” IfsGivingLongI CanDifferentLeftBlackRoomsActingStageColorPaintingDirectorsRedGreenPaintMetaphorBrownEditingReally GreatPurpleActing In MoviesRed And Black Author:Scott Glenn
“I've had a chance to really stretch and do a lot of different genres. When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.” DifferentWholeActorsChanceActingCompanyRolesComedyFocusStageHavensTypeTragedyIntentionGenreEtcJumpingReservationsDifferent GenresStage Actors Author:Kyle MacLachlan
“I just love the whole art form of acting, of being in front of a camera and playing different things. Not that I would ever say I'm the greatest actor in the world, but I am capable of playing different kinds of roles that emotionally I could get into.” WorldKindArtDifferentWholeFormActorsActingRolesFrontsCapableCamerasDifferent ThingsDifferent Kinds Author:Andrew Dice Clay
“Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out of - because they had accepted the unacceptable to begin with. Accepting something you have to form a labor union to fight after the fact only tells me that people were acting against their own best (or even good) interests for a long time. I don't see any rational, coherent explanation for this sort of behavior in humans, but it's all over the place.” PeopleHumansLongDifferentFactsFormFightingInterestPayActingAcceptingWillingTasteBehaviorLong TimeLaborUnionsAcceptedLifestyleRationalExplanationLivelihoodLabor UnionDifferent Lifestyles Author:Erik Naggum
“There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.” PeopleWayKindHas BeensDifferentDoneMightEvilNamesIndividualCommonActingCrimeHatredConvincedCommitCivilizedPersecutionHumaneCommon Good Author:Thomas Merton
“I think the best models are actors, you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition. Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that, you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.” ThinkingWayFeelsLooksPersonsLongHas BeensDifferentCharacterSeemsMovingActorsActingStepsCrazyLike YouEasierLong TimeModelsBiggerDeeperTransitionLike YourselfModelling Author:Liberty Ross