"This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to."

Acting, Tomorrow

17

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to."

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

"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

"Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core."

Anthony Rapp, American Actor

Acting,

Explore more quotes by Matt LeBlanc

"Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it."

Comedy

"I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men."

Men

"And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun."

Work

"I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know?"

Job

"I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience."

Experience

"When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does."

Acting

"As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character."

Character

"Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform."

Earth

"In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly."

Comedy

"Having kids has been great for me. I have two beautiful step- kids, as well as my own new daughter. They've really helped me to keep my feet firmly on the ground, and life is good. I feel like I'm the luckiest guy here."

Life