Chris Tucker Quotes

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I feel like I'm absolutely insane, and I don't think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people... and having that as a job is crazy.

Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.

Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.

Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.

The process of acting, not necessarily the business of acting, but the actual doing of it in the moment is my greatest kind of personal passion, the thing that brings me alive the most. Also, my two children.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

There's something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show. Things you wouldn't do in your life, you do on stage. You have to let go. And that's extra hard for rappers. We have a tendency to, quote unquote, keep it real. As an actor, you have to be able to humiliate yourself. Do whatever it takes.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Acting is something I love.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

I've always liked being on the performance end of it. I've come up with different ideas, but as far as being a creative writer, I'm not sure about that. I've always liked the performance end of it and wrestling, getting in the ring in front of a live crowd.