#acting

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium. ↗

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them. ↗

— Peter MacNicol

#accept #acting #being #character #covering

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one. ↗

— Michael Madsen

#excuse #great #kids #like #stop

A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific. ↗

— Nick Mancuso

#ago #also #did #few #film

I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#always #did #had #i #i always

Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#age #also #baggage #becoming #bit

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#acting #big #big deal #deal #hard

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting. ↗

— Frank Langella

#did #eight #first #i #little

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#everybody #getting #glamour #i #i think

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it. ↗