Chip Esten Quotes

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth.

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

Acting is a mysterious process.

When you act for a living, you are lucky enough to get to say things you really want to say. You get lines that you look forward to, lines that jump out like a jack-in-the-box; you're thinking: 'Wait till you hear this.'

Singing is also like acting, since I memorize my lines, and I sing with emotions, too.

I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

Acting is an everlasting search for truth.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

For me, acting is doing.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

I very much like dance and dancers.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

Acting meant so much to me.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.