Roger Moore Quotes

I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.

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.

Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

I'm just a character actor.

I've never been to acting classes or anything like that. Everything I do is quite instinctual.

Just observing - that's the best skill of all for an actor!

If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.

I am always interested in good performance, always tried to improve my skill as an actor.

To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.

I'm not a trained actor. I surrender to my directors, and they make me act.

I never went to school to study acting, so I'm doing this purely on feeling, and I give it my all.

I loved the idea that acting was something you could develop into slowly; something you could study.

I go to an acting class every Sunday.

I've never been in an acting class in my life.

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

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.

Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are very few who have real talent.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.