Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Acting Quotes
ActingChallenging TaskGeniusInsecurity I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.
ActingCollaborationEnjoymentMaterial QualityOpportunity For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!
ActingRecognitionTalentWriting I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.
ActingCalmFilm ExperienceRelaxationScenes I did this scene in 'Lars and the Real Girl' where I was in a room full of old ladies who were knitting, and it was an all-day scene, so they showed me how. It was one of the most relaxing days of my life.
ActingAuthenticitySubtlety The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
ActingCharacter Creation Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
ActingAspirationMovies My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.
ActingDirectingFilmmakingWriting I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
ActingCharacter PortrayalDramaEmotionPerformance Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
ActingCreativityMovementPerformanceScience I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
ActingIdentityTalentYouth Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.
ActingBritish ActorsCinemaPerformanceTalent I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.
ActingFulfillmentIntegrityLife As A StagePurpose Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
ActingAuthenticityCharacter DevelopmentNaturalness I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.
ActingCharactersCinemaClassic FilmsVillains Shane was a classic, and you can't find a better bad guy than Jack Palance.
ActingCredibilityHollywoodPerception When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.
ActingCharacter PortrayalMythologyPerformancePreparation For 'Hercules,' I went for the demigod look: big and mean. When you're playing a character like the son of Zeus, you only get one shot.
ActingFilmImpressionRecognitionRespect I had a lot of respect for Jeremy Renner as an actor before I worked with him, because I was very impressed with what he did in 'The Hurt Locker.'
ActingAuthenticityProfessionalism Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you're going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can't do it any other way. But you don't carry it beyond the set.
ActingPersonal GrowthTransformation My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!
ActingLegacyMemoryMoviesSuccess I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
ActingExperienceHumilityLearningObservation I don't watch anything of mine much. I haven't gone to drama school, or college, either. I just like to watch other actors in action. I learned so much from working with De Niro. I'd be in a scene with him where I was supposed to be acting, and I was just watching.