Play Acting Quotes
Collection of top 78 famous quotes about Play Acting
Play Acting Quotes & Sayings
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My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.
— Bret McKenzie
Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me.
— Billy Bob Thornton
That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.
— Julie Kavner
I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
— Carice Van Houten
As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.
— Simon McBurney
Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.
— Claudia Christian
Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.
— Denzel Washington
I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.
— Todd Haynes
Acting is like a game of tennis. The better your opponent, the better you're going to play.
— Shawnee Smith
If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
— Wendi McLendon-Covey
I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
— Jacqueline Bisset
It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.
— Jesse Eisenberg
Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite.
— Stephen Charnock
My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.
— Lynn Redgrave
I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
— Malin Akerman
I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.
— Miranda Cosgrove
Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become stageworthy.
— Viola Spolin
I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
I just really enjoy the ritual of going to work and playing, which is essentially what we do. We play pretend. Acting is a kids' game.
— Bailey Chase
And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.
— Gillian Flynn
Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.
— Shawnee Smith
At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.
— James Van Der Beek
Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.
— Melissa Ordway
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
— Ethel Waters
I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.
— Kaitlyn Dever
By confusing life with play-acting and play-acting with life, one may perhaps construct a tolerable moral world from shattered fragments of the past
— William Hardy McNeill
One play down and 497 to Go!
— Ray S. Jones
My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.
— John Mahoney
It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.
— Jan Karon
The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb.
— V. Alexander
It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.
— Michael C. Hall
What I love most about acting is being able to play different types of personalities without being considered crazy.
— Tyler James Williams
Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.
— Dakota Fanning
Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.
— William Shakespeare
That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.
— Julianna Margulies
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
As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.
— Andy Serkis
The trouble with plays these days is that they're too easy to understand.
— Robert Alan Aurthur
I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.
— Jonathan Tucker
The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from a play I was in.
— Poorna Jagannathan
Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.
— Margaret Millar
I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.
— Joan Cusack
Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.
— John Dryden
If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
— Brit Marling
People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
— Samantha Morton
Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.
— Sylvester Stallone
The play's the thing.
— William Shakespeare
Acting is a great gig. It pays well, I get to meet some nice people, and it allows me to play a lot of golf. I'm a real lucky guy.
— Clint Howard
I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school.
— Pawel Szajda
For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.
— Anson Mount
Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.'
— James Michael Tyler
Acting's all about stepping out of the box, so I don't want to go to work every day and play Cassie Scerbo at all.
— Cassie Scerbo
Each man has some part to play.
— Adelaide Anne Procter
I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.
— Santigold
I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman