Film Acting Quotes

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.

Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

I love film acting - I'm not snobby about it. I don't think that theater acting's a more noble profession. I think they're both very important. I love both. And in my dream world, I'd get to do both forever.

I got into film acting because I wanted to be James Dean. We lost him at a very young age - he was only 24 - but I’m 51 going on 52, so there's only so many times you can act like James Dean. I had to find new ways of expressing myself that kept me fascinated with film performance.

I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.

I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.

I was working more on a primal, instinctive level. And it just seemed to suit me; it seemed to suit my concentration span, it seemed to suit my personal style of performance, and I have fallen in love with film acting.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.

Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the directors eyes, you get it right does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.

History is the same thing over and over again.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.