Quotes by Acting Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy. Albert Brooks lazy acting dog I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible. Albert Brooks acting impossible jobs A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic. Albert Camus nazism logic acting I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper. Albert Einstein acting men believe The legs are the wheels of creativity. Albert Einstein legs creativity acting So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will. Albert Einstein acting perfect men Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated. Albert Einstein acting land brain What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field. Albert Einstein acting body special That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well. Albert Finney good-times acting trying I feel like I would have ultimately ended up pursuing acting. It probably would have been much more difficult and taken a lot longer for me to get into it professionally. Alden Ehrenreich difficult acting taken In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different. Alec Baldwin theater different acting Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious. Alec Baldwin volcanoes acting self I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. Alec Baldwin talent acting thinking I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it. Alec Baldwin talent acting thinking An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego. Alec Guinness ego acting personality I could feel the real interaction between directing and acting, when an actor or an actress really suggests very interesting things. Alejandro Amenabar acting real interesting The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu actors acting real 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. Aleksa Palladino different acting writing I do both music and acting at the same time. To me they are both really important parts of how I express myself and understand myself in the world. I don't ever want to have to choose one over the other in any sort of grand sense of things. Obviously with scheduling you wind up making choices. Aleksa Palladino acting important choices I'm a restless person. I get bored very quickly, particularly with myself. I've used acting as an escape and a way to channel my nervous energy. So I've always looked to find a role that's as different from the one before it. I need change and variety or start to feel depressed. Alessandro Nivola bored acting energy «1234567891011»