When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn’t put one over the other. – Harry Shum, Jr.
The only reason why you should do a film is because it creatively carbonates you and gets you going. If you’re doing it for any other reason, you’ve lost sight of why you’re acting in the first place. – Graham Phillips
I’m quite proud of some of the films I’ve done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they’re unpretentious and entertaining. I’m proud of having made unpretentious choices. – Hugh Grant
I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I’ve done some little bits and pieces – curiosities. – Hugh Grant
I don’t like to intellectualize about my acting. I don’t sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again. – Genevieve Bujold
I don’t do much acting anymore anyway, and not to work for 20th Century Fox is really the least of my worries. – Hugh Grant
Initially I probably didn’t even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it’s a total imaginary world. – Hugo Weaving
I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that’s all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting. – Halle Berry
They’re called ‘action scenes’ because they do the acting for you. You don’t have to act in action scenes. The action does it all for you. It’s great. – Helen Mirren
I’ve been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for ‘The Queen.’ – Helen Mirren
I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did. – H. Jon Benjamin
If you do too much acting in a lead part in a feature film where you’re 40 ft. high, it’s rather unattractive. You can see the acting. And it’s actually the right thing to do to bring as much of yourself, I believe, to the part as you possibly can – to minimize the amount of theatrical stuff that you need to do. – Hugh Grant
The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do. – Helena Bonham Carter
When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn’t sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud… these were very, very intimidating and powerful people. – Helen Mirren
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. – Glenda Jackson
I don’t laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny. – Harland Williams
Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show. – James Stewart
I always have a rule that acting is acting and truth is truth and you just go out there and you do it. But what happens in each medium is that you have other responsibilities. The acting remains the same, but each medium dictates assuming other halves to make the acting work. – James Woods
It shouldn’t come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it. – Julie Burchill
Auditioning is such an unnatural thing. You’re in a tiny little room with, like, seven people cramped together, acting to a casting director; just, none of it makes any sense. – Jane Levy
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do. – Jesse Eisenberg
