Film Acting Quotes:

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.

- Ron Perlman

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Style, Acting, Suits, Film Acting

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.

- Ruth Wilson

topic: Thinking, Acting, Cameras, Film 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.

- Michael Caine

source: Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2004.

topic: Real, Ideas, Acting, Film Acting

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.

- Erland Josephson

topic: Acting, Technique, Cameras, Stage Actors, Film Acting

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

- James Lipton

topic: Acting, Foundation, Film, Stage Acting, Film Acting

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

- Hugh Grant

topic: Mind, Acting, Film, Film Acting

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.

- Michael Caine

topic: Acting, Looks, Actors, Film Acting

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

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Anon, Insanity And Genius

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.

- Alex Borstein

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

topic: Fun, People, Acting, Working With Others, Film Acting

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

- Miles Teller

topic: Nice, Acting, Rabbit Holes, Film Acting

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

- Dwight Yoakam

topic: Artist, Giving, Acting, Film Acting

History is the same thing over and over again.

- Woody Allen

topic: History, Anon, Insanity And Sanity, Special Talents, Mojo

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

- Danny Boyle

source: Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

topic: Acting, Film, Tradition, Film Acting

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.

- Nicolas Cage

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

topic: Quality, Acting, Film, Film Acting

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.

- Rod Steiger

topic: Ego, Acting, Would Be, Film Acting

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.

- Rebecca Hall

source: "The Roles of Rebecca Hall". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 13, 2015.

topic: Dream, Thinking, Forever, Noble Profession, Film Acting

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.

- Thomas Horn

topic: Careers, Discipline, Acting, Film Acting, Great Experiences

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.

- Riz Ahmed

source: "Q&A: Riz Ahmed". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2010.

topic: People, Doubt, Acting, Film Acting

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

- James Franco

topic: Acting, Film, Reviews, Film Acting

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

- John Boyega

topic: Theatre, Acting, Lessons, Film Acting, Theatre Acting

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.

- Sam Shepard

topic: Hate, Play, Acting, Stage Play, Film Acting

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

- James Lipton

topic: Differences, Acting, Fundamentals, Film Acting

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.

- Natalie Portman

source: Source: www.moviesonline.ca

topic: Thinking, Acting, Cameras, Film Acting

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.

- Mara Wilson

topic: Fun, Real, Eye, Film Acting, Creative Freedom

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.

- Mara Wilson

topic: People, Appreciate, Acting, Respect Me, Film Acting

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.

- Adam Driver

topic: Acting, Juilliard, Film, Film Acting

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.

- Nicolas Cage

source: "Nicolas Cage: ‘Personal Issues Don’t Have a Place in Film Commentary’" by Eliza Berman, time.com. August 7, 2015.

topic: Age, Acting, Way, Film Acting