“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
“Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which their actions resolve. About-to-act is an interesting state to experience, because I am conscious of just those tensions. Acting itself feels fairly dull; it not only resolves, it obliterates those tensions from my consciousness. Acting is only interesting as it leads to new tensions that, irrelevantly, cause me to act again.” FeelsStatesActionActorsCausesInterestingActingConsciousnessWatchesMovementConsciousLandscapeTensionDullInternalsResolveEmblems Book:Dhalgren Source: Dhalgren
“People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.” PeopleShouldTryingCharacterActingWatchesWatch Me Author:John Boyega
“When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.” MadeWholeYoungParentActingWatchesEntertainmentJimmyMystiqueOld Music Author:James Wolk
“I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.” ParentRoomsActingWatchesCriticsScreensDislikeInsecure Author:Sophie Turner
“Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.” PeopleFilmYoungActorsViewsActingQualityWatchesMessagesRubiesGood Acting Author:Brian J. White
“I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.” KnowsEyeActorsActingWatchesToolsPanic Author:Andy Serkis
“They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.” LawActorsActingWatchesSausage Author:Ed Asner
“One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started acting I would sometimes have ideas about certain things, whether it's a scene, or a character or certain dialogue, that wouldn't be followed. I was never in a position to have the power to press the matter. Sometimes it wasn't even about my character. But I'd watch the movie afterwards and think I was right.” ThinkingFirstsWellsIdeasSometimesMatterCharacterCertainActorsMy OwnActingWatchesOne ThingPositionScenePressesInstinctDialogueProducersI've LearnedThings I've Learned Author:Gerard Butler
“When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.” FirstsKidsAgeYoungBitsActingWatchesSeeingTasteCamerasPopsBugsYoung AgeHarlem Author:Tracy Morgan
“I hate acting classes. I did a few, but I've always hated acting classes. I prefer to just watch a movie or watch TV and take it from there.” HateActingClassWatchesTvsI HateHatedActing Classes Author:Callan McAuliffe
“Just keep acting is my plan, I just want to keep going for as long as I can. I've had a fantastic time on Potter, I will be very sad to leave it because every time I look back on one of these films, every scene I watch will be forever linked to a memory of what happened that day or something that was happening around that time in my life.” WantLooksLongI CanFilmMemoriesActingWatchesForeverPlansHappenedSceneHappeningsFantasticKeep GoingLinkedPottersVery Sad Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween's and that film about the haunted house... Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we'd watch horror films.” I CanFilmFatherHousePartyActingWatchesHorrorDiedSevenObsessionAttributesOfferingHalloweenHolmesClawsHorror FilmSlumberReedsScarletBirthday PartyFather DiedMy Father DiedHaunted HousesBasilFaveSlumber Party Author:Cate Blanchett
“You know, when you see yourself on a big screen, I tend to watch from behind my hands. There is absolutely the regret. You always get that at the end of every project. That's what's great about theater: at least every night you get the chance to go out and re-offend. I'm endlessly disappointed, which is what propels me into the next project, probably, not to repair the damage but to kind of hopefully keep developing. Otherwise there's no reason to keep doing it, is there?” KnowsKindEndsReasonHandsBigsNightNextChanceActingBehindsWatchesRegretProjectsTheaterScreensHopefullyDevelopingDamageNo ReasonDisappointedEvery NightBig Screen Author:Cate Blanchett
“In acting you do a lot of research. Audience watch Jet Li because of the fight. They watch other actors because they are funny. If they want funny, they don't want to see Jet Li, they watch the other guy. That's the reality I face, until the one day I can prove I can make film without action that is a fun movie. Then everybody will say Jet Li, hmmm.” IfsWantI CanRealityActionFilmFacesGuyFightingActorsFunActingWatchesAudienceOne DayProveResearchJetOther GuysHmmmFun Movie Author:Jet Li
“I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.” PlayUsedActingWatchesCarGuitarSalesmanCar Salesman Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.
“My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so thats when I kind of fell in love with acting.” KindUsedFatherActingWatchesBondingWatch MovieBonding Time Author:Jessica Barth
“It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.” PeopleWellsHardJobsFunActingWatchesHardestBeing YourselfGoodmanHardest Job Author:Bill Murray
“The thing I like most about acting is that it entertains people. Films and TV can also offer such comfort to people... TV especially, because it's in people's homes and they can watch it at home. It offers them insights into different cultures and ideas, which I think is great.” PeopleThinkingIdeasDifferentHomeFilmCultureActingWatchesTvsComfortOffersInsightDifferent Cultures Author:Yasmin Paige
“When I was 12 or 13, I started to watch films and understand more about the craft and that helped me to develop. But it also felt like a game, because it was fun. I mean, all of us do it when we're kids to a degree - play acting. But then I came to realise that it's a lovely way to express yourself. So, my passion for it developed as I got older.” WayMeanPlayKidsFilmPassionGamesFunFeltActingWatchesDegreesLovelyCraftsRealisingMy PassionExpress Yourself Author:Yasmin Paige
“I take from people all the time. I didn't ever go to acting classes or anything. You can just watch people.” PeopleActingClassWatchesActing Classes Author:Jennifer Lawrence