“One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.” ActingWonderfulDramaDifficultyWonderful Things Author:Anjelica Huston
“Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.” ThinkingActingWonderfulBeatsWonderful ThingsActing Out Author:Kevin Spacey
“I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any acting opportunity I've gotten is usually because I was writing on it. This is like a wonderful vacation. If you've ever sat in a writers' room it's the most disgusting, tortuous place, so it's a treat to be treated like a movie actor.” IfsThinkingFeelsWritingFirstsStillsActorsOpportunityRoomsActingWonderfulLuckyTreatsTreatedSatExceptionVacationDisgustingMovie Actors Author:Tina Fey
“Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.” WayWantNeedsMomentsActorsLostActingWonderfulWhat You WantSusceptibleClearingWants And Needs Author:Meryl Streep
“Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I'm very, very grateful; it's a fun job. It's a luxury.” JobsFunActingGrowing UpGrowingWonderfulGratefulLuxuryWonderful Things Author:Angelina Jolie
“I went to school to play sports, but I got involved in theatre in college kind of by mistake. I ended up taking an acting class almost just to get rid of an arts requirement, but I wound up in this wonderful acting class with this teacher named Alma Becker who really saved my life. I was just kind of this knucklehead kid from DC and I was in and out of trouble all of the time. I took a theatre class and she really discovered something in me and I absolutely fell in love with it.” KindArtPlayKidsSchoolSportsActingMistakeClassTeacherWonderfulTroubleCollegeInvolvedTheatreWoundsSavedRequirementsActing ClassesKnuckleheads Author:Jon Bernthal
“I think everyone's journey through this crazy, weird, wild, wonderful area of work named acting is really their own. And if you're going for something that isn't yours, you're wasting time. You could be focused on your own work instead of thinking about somebody else.” IfsThinkingActingWonderfulJourneyCrazyAreasFocusedWasting Time Author:Laura Linney
“Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.” PlayBeautifulActorsBlackLosesWalksActingWonderfulFrontsForestsLosing YourselfBackdropIbsen Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske
“The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They're imagining they're out in the yard playing. They're imagining that things happened, and they can get very vivid.” ChildrenKidsActorsNaturalInterestingActingWonderfulHappenedThings HappenYardsVividInteresting ThingsChild Actors Author:Clint Eastwood
“I was a ballet dancer for so long, but when I realized I had reached my limit and that I couldn't go any further I knew I wanted to pursue acting. That's one thing you don't use as a dancer - your voice. And the one thing I use most in my life is my voice so it's wonderful to get to express myself artistically through the biggest instrument I use.” LongUseWantedLife IsVoiceActingWonderfulOne ThingLimitsInstrumentsI RealizedPursueDancerBalletBallet Dancer Author:Zoe Saldana
“Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative control. But I loved the craft and my father wanted me to get a college degree. Seemed natural to study what I loved and Marymount Manhattan has a wonderful theatre program, I highly recommend it! A lot of what I learned there I apply to my comicbook writing and pacing.” WritingEnoughAgeWantedPoliticalFatherNaturalActingCreativeStudyWonderfulCollegeDegreesProgramTheatreI RealizedCraftsVocationManhattanPacingCollege Degree Author:Holly Golightly
“I still feel like the person who shouldn't be doing this and everyone is acting around me as if I'm a badass all the time. And this still feels like a stretch. I realize this is something that is incredible. I get to do this and I get wonderful teachers to help me and it's amazing.” IfsFeelsPersonsStillsHelpingRealizingActingTeacherWonderfulIncrediblesHelp MeBadassWonderful Teacher Author:Kate Beckinsale
“It was great for that to be my first movie with such a wonderful cast, and such a huge movie. And now I get to do The Fighting Temptations, which is coming out soon-it wasn't much of a character, it was more of a real person, so I got to show more of my acting range.” FirstsPersonsRealCharacterShowsFightingActorsActingWonderfulHugeCastsTemptationRangeMovieComing OutReal Person Author:Beyonce Knowles
“As a kid, I just was a contract player at MGM Studios. They put me into goodness knows how many different roles.Some of them were wonderful and some of them were very just distasteful and awful because I was playing out of my age range and I was thoroughly uncomfortable, let's put it that way. So it took me many years to find my acting feet.” KnowsWayYearsDifferentKidsAgeActingRolesKnow HowPlayerWonderfulFeetGoodnessStudiosAwfulRangeUncomfortableContractsDistastefulMgm Author:Angela Lansbury
“I became an actor to escape my own personality. Acting is the most therapeutic thing in the world. You see, through acting you come full circle in your personality and, oh, what a grand time you can have along the way being wonderful people through your characters...I think all the courage that I may lack personally I have as an actor.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayMayCharacterActorsMy OwnActingWonderfulPersonalityCirclesTherapeuticFull CircleMy Own Personality Author:George C. Scott
“I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this is going to sound really sort of pretentious, but that's where my mind was at the time - how acting and the performing artist can really be like a Bodhisattva, how they can communicate ultimately an idea in a way that can move and shift things. And that was wonderful. I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea, and that happened to be one of them.” KnowsWayWritingTryingMindIdeasWantedRememberMovingArtistSoundActingClassWonderfulHappenedPaperIntellectualDrawsCommunicateRelatePerformingPretentiousPerforming ArtsSeminarsBodhisattvaPerforming Artist Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It's an evolution - doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk. Anyone would be up for a little bit of a change. It is so rewarding to do a movie, and so enjoyable. It's hard work, but really wonderful.” NeedsGivingTryingYearsKindLittlesHardWould BeBitsActingWonderfulHard WorkEvolutionLittle BitGive MeEnjoyableChunks Author:Agyness Deyn
“When you read a script, you don't want to be the same guy all the time, you want to change, you're a different person. That's why acting is a wonderful career. You're not the same guy all the time.” WantPersonsDifferentGuyActingCareersWonderfulScripts Author:Robert Loggia
“I attribute that to the generosity of people that are in the entertainment business because they are all struggling. All roads seem to come to acting, for certain kinds of people that have a reason for being there. They want to be seen and heard, but there's more to it than that. There's a kindred spirit of struggling to find out, "What is this thing? What are we?" It's those eternal questions. But, in the meanwhile, I've met some wonderful people doing this.” PeopleWantKindReasonSeemsSpiritCertainActingStruggleWonderfulHeardMetsEternalEntertainmentGenerosityAttributesBeing ThereKindredEntertainment BusinessKindred Spirit Author:Lance Henriksen
“Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing.” SpaceActingWonderfulCinemaTone Author:Peter Jacobson
“You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you can play for years, with wonderful writing and wonderful actors.” WritingYearsPlayActorsActingRolesWonderfulTiredMaking MoneyGigs Author:Peter Jacobson