Acting In Movies Quotes:

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

- Alfred Hitchcock

topic: Movie, Funny Life, Gambling, Directing Movies, Film Directors

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

- Alfred Hitchcock

topic: Drama, Writing, Life Is Short, Film Directors, Camera Angles

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.

- Clive Owen

topic: Tired, Acting, Want, Acting In Movies

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

- Alec Baldwin

topic: Acting, Different, Theater, Acting In Movies

I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.

- Douglas Booth

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Mom, Children, Ideas, Acting In Movies

My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.

- Scott Glenn

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Editing, Color, Purple, Red And Black, Acting In Movies

When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.

- Justin Bartha

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Acting, Directors, Actors, Acting In Movies

For me, the real goal is to integrate. The thing that I'm most happy with is the fact that I've been able to keep doing all of it - to keep writing, and to keep acting in movies, and to keep acting on the stage, to keep directing plays. I find that they feed each other, and that I learn about acting from directing and I learn about writing from acting.

- Ethan Hawke

source: "Ethan Hawke's fifth elements". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 14, 2012.

topic: Real, Writing, Play, Acting In Movies

Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.

- Dustin Hoffman

source: "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: Cutting, People, Waiting, Acting In Movies

The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

- Cary Grant

topic: Acting, Good Things, Heavy, Acting In Movies, Lifting

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

- Mathieu Amalric

topic: Acting, Actors, Acting In Movies