Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that.

I always knew I wanted to be an actress, and I had the attitude that I would learn more under people like Samuel L. Jackson, Laurence Fishburne or Mike Myers than from someone who had never starred in a movie. I just didn't think that someone who had never been in a movie could teach me how to act in one.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.

When I was a kid, I thought good acting was fascinating, and I could tell the difference. I could see that at like 9 years old.

I learned a lot about acting from the people I worked with.

The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.

Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.

I've never worked with an acting coach, no.

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

Movie acting is harder than doing a play. You have to be entertaining but completely natural, like Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. They weren't doing anything. Do you have any idea how hard that is? That's how good they were. It's crazy hard to be convincing and real. It's the most subtle, hardest thing there is.

Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her.

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

I was born a character actor.

I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.

I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.

My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.