Quotes by Acting Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes. Anthony Hopkins rhythm lines acting Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery. Anthony Hopkins theatre acting brain Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works. Anthony Hopkins acting listening long I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting. Anthony Hopkins distrust acting art If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set. Anthony Hopkins actors acting home I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery. Anthony Hopkins acting promise school I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what I do. But I still feel like a bit of a stranger in it all. I've never really belonged anywhere. Anthony Hopkins acting stranger way I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical. Anthony Hopkins cynical acting believe I'm interested in doing some acting in the future, but it's a distant second to stand up. Anthony Jeselnik acting If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction. Anthony Mackie construction work-out acting Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core. Anthony Rapp gym shapes acting I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up. Antonio Banderas acting littles art The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me. Antony Sher mystery careers acting What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise. Antony Sher disguise acting firsts Theater will always be my first love. The time and dedication that goes into the rehearsal process with the cast and crew is something that TV/Movie acting does not offer. April Parker Jones dedication first-love acting To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge. Archibald MacLeish acting realization opposites I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces. Archie Panjabi black careers acting With acting, I started as a kid and it was my safe space and the place where I felt the most free to be all of myself. What gets explored in our show is where that instinct starts and where it meets with career, and how that can change your path a bit. Ari Graynor acting path kids All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is. Ariana Grande singing acting dancing Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it. Aristotle acting vices doe «910111213141516171819»