"The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself."

Acting, Moments

23

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself."

Exlpore more Acting quotes

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Acting, Man

"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."

Morgan Freeman, American Actor

Acting,

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Acting, Sensuality

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Acting, Writing

"Acting is happy agony."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

Acting,

"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."

Cameron Diaz, American Actress

Acting, Actor, Understanding

"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."

John Cleese, English Actor

Acting, Competence

"Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over."

Tara Lipinski, American Athlete

Acting, Chance

"Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?"

Corbin Bernsen, American Actor

Acting, Parents, Want

"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."

Parker Posey, American Actress

Acting, Nothing, Old, Opera

Explore more quotes by Tom Cruise

"I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life."

Life, Film, Help

"Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast."

Awards, Journey, Will

"I've been... chased by paparazzi, and they run lights, and they chase you and harass you the whole time. It happens all over the world, and it has certainly gotten worse. You don't know what it's like being chased by them."

Time, Being, World

"I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities."

Power,

"The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself."

Acting, Moments

"What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy."

Life, Actors, Play

"I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing."

Money, Work, Choices, Film

"When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion."

Life, People, Successful

"I always look for a challenge and something that's different."

Challenge,

"Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?"

Embarrassment, Feeling, Tomorrow