Acting on film quotes:

Send

I think I've grown up in an era where character acting on film has become less desirable for the producers and directors and therefore the audience. They have got used to the people that those actors really are. -- David Suchet
My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen. -- Eddie Redmayne
Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film. -- Ted Shackelford
I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre. -- Keeley Hawes
I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film. -- Heath Ledger
I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations. -- Alfred Molina
My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film. -- Judd Nelson
Most of the time you spend filming a show is time you spend without the cameras on, when you're not acting. -- Allison Tolman
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting. -- Miranda Richardson
I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film. -- Rila Fukushima
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas. -- Shailene Woodley
Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on. -- Mira Sorvino
I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really. -- Amy Adams
Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you. -- John C. Reilly
I want to direct films, ultimately. Hopefully I'll have a fantastic career in acting and then go on to do that. That's my dream; that's the ultimate goal. -- Charlie Rowe
On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly. -- Maggie Gyllenhaal
I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up. -- Kathleen Turner
That's the thing about film acting and television acting. You just release yourself and do what is true for the moment, and ignore everybody and everything and all the technical razzmatazz that goes on. -- David Suchet
I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting - it's great. -- Gary Shteyngart
I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself. -- Bobby Darin
I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen. -- Tim Roth
What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey', is, I've kind of made a concerted effort to hijack my acting career to turn it into film school, because I've always had the blasphemous idea of becoming a reasonably competent filmmaker in my own right some day. -- Jeremy Davies
I don't think a Hollywood actor is safe from acting in the rain: it all depends on the film. -- Isabella Rossellini
I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage. -- Tommy Wiseau
I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early. -- Cynthia Nixon
I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film. -- Saffron Burrows
My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan. -- Natalie Dormer
I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film. -- Carole King

Send