Acting Well Quotes

Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business, to act well the given part. But to choose it belongs to Another.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it's going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, 'Wow, that movie' - or that show or whatever - 'turned out really well.'

Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.

To act well isn't an easy thing.

'Game of Thrones' is my big break, so I've got to make the most of it, keep acting well.

Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.