“Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.” ArtActorsActingEmotionalDisciplineAbsurdUnfortunateDetachmentAbandonmentVogueBurstingManiacsSpillingVomitingContainmentWheezing Book:The lonely life: an autobiography Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
“Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.” MeanActorsActingDisciplineSensitivity Author:Neil Diamond
“Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.” ActingQualityDisciplineCarrieGymnastics Author:Mitch Gaylord
“Each form of the acting is different. I think it keeps your mind active. TV, film and theater are different disciplines, as are independent films, opposed to studio films. There are differences in the size and the genre, or a period drama as opposed to a contemporary drama, or the types of characters.” ThinkingMindDifferentCharacterFilmFormDifferencesActingTvsTypeDisciplinePeriodsDramaTheaterIndependentSizeStudiosActiveContemporaryGenreIndependent Film Author:Luke Evans
“Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and I'd done all three since I was 9-years-old. I could sing, but I didn't become a great singer.” YearsDoneWantedThreeActingDisciplineAmbitionUltimateSingers Author:Amy Winehouse
“I was in acting classes from the age of 9, dance classes, music classes - my mom put a lot of energy and attention into me, so no matter what happened in my life, I always had this basis of discipline. So I really worked hard for everything I had from a very early age.” MatterHardAgeEnergyActingAttentionClassHappenedMomDisciplineBasesNo Matter WhatMy MomActing ClassesDance Class Author:Milla Jovovich
“It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.” WritingArtPainDesireCausesNumbersActingAdventureDisciplineAffectionPainfulEnthusiasm Author:Julia Cameron
“Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.” WritingTryingActorsActingRolesDisciplineI RealizedBombs Author:Patton Oswalt
“When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you had to work 12 to 16 hours a day, knowing you had to be prepared, knowing you had to be ready, and it's very interesting because if you're an artist and you're creating, you can work very, very long hours but as you're putting out that love of creation, it's almost like you're charged by it, you're charged by the process of it.” IfsLongArtistStrongProcessHoursInterestingActingKnowingCreationReadyLike YouDisciplineCreatingPreparedBe PreparedVery InterestingLong Hours Author:Jaime King
“I wanted to learn a little bit about acting, not because I thought I'd find a star vehicle and set the world on fire, but I thought the discipline of it would be good for me. I met a good coach, and I joined her class - with a lot of hungry young actors who really didn't acre if I was a rock 'n' roll singer or not. I started to learn to get a focus, without having to jump up and down every few seconds.” IfsWorldLittlesWould BeWantedYoungActorsStarsBitsActingClassFireFocusRocksDisciplineMetsLittle BitBe GoodCoachesSingersHungrySecondsRock N RollVehicleUp And DownAcresYoung ActorsGood Coaches Author:Iggy Pop
“Nobody would ever think, "Oh, get into acting so you can live the straight and narrow path," but it gave me a sense of discipline and focus.” ThinkingActingPathFocusDisciplineNarrow Path Author:Juliette Lewis
“I went away to this summer program after my junior year of high school. They used to have this thing called the Governor's School, and they had it for different disciplines - science, math, performing arts. I auditioned and I got accepted, and it was an eight-week program away from home. I went for acting. I was 15, and I turned 16 while I was there, so that was a seminal moment for me. It made me realize the life of it, the discipline of it, and the joy of that discipline, where it was all we did.” YearsArtMadeDifferentMomentsHomeSchoolUsedJoyRealizingActingWeekDisciplineSummerHigh SchoolProgramEightMathAcceptedPerformingGovernorsJuniorsAway From HomePerforming ArtsJunior YearJunior Year Of High School Author:Zachary Quinto
“Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same side of your brain when you write as when you improv.” WritingDifferentHelpingSidesActingBrainDiscipline Author:Daniel Kaluuya
“Acting is a different discipline. On stage I'm free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.” DifferentActingStageDisciplinePleaseVery Good Author:Billy Connolly
“My abject hatred of actors and the acting world. I went to college as an actor, and halfway through, I switched to playwriting and directing. Then I spent a couple years working in publishing, doing some freelance journalism for The Village Voice and Musician magazine. I thought my life was going to be as a writer, but then I realized I missed performing, so I got into comedy. It was a nice combination of things I was sort of good at. I was a pretty good writer and a decent actor, but I didn't really like acting, and I didn't have the discipline to be a writer.” WorldActingComedyNiceCollegeCoupleDisciplineMusicianHatredI RealizedJournalismPerformingDecentPublishingHalfway Author:Christian Finnegan
“I think for acting on stage and in film, one informs the other. Obviously, they require really different kinds of discipline and really different kinds of work. It's more along the same continuum, for me.” ThinkingKindDifferentFilmActingDisciplineDifferent Kinds Author:Zoe Kazan
“When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.” KnowsEnoughDreamKidsWantedActorsActingLaughingTakenStupidSeriousDisciplineComicRealisingDaniel Day Lewis Author:Chris O'Dowd
“If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.” IfsMightWould BeActingStudyDisciplinePhysicsAnimation Author:Chris Hardwick
“I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.” WantedFoundActingProudDadDisciplineMy DadBe ProudComing BackBeing A DadProud Of Me Author:Tom Hardy