#acting

Acting to me is real life - I don't act. ↗

— Bai Ling

#acting #i #life #me #real

Acting's fun, but life's more important. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#fun #important #life #more

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#acting #art #bad #bad acting #fact

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#distracting #done #element #film #gate

I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#child #child actors #concept #confused #dreamed

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#just #real #voice #you

We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#plays #film

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog. ↗

— Connie Brockway

#advice #dialog #smile #writing #writing-advice

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#board #box #box office #did #fun

Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits. ↗

— Vincent H. O'Neil

#directing #murder #mystery #playwriting #theater