Quotes About Acting Badly

#1. The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.

Tony Robbins

#2. When I was 14, I saw 'Waiting for Godot.' It's one of those plays that if it's done badly is absolutely dire and can put you off acting for life. But I was laughing all the way through it.

Kit Harington

#3. Selfishness is the root of great evil.

Richard G. Scott

#4. A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.

Shaun McNiff

#5. Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

Bill Skarsgard

#6. To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.

Stephen R. Covey

#7. A good change leader never thinks, "Why are these people acting so badly? They must be bad people." A change leader thinks, "How can I set up a situation that brings out the good in these people?

Chip Heath

#8. The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.

Brian De Palma

#9. I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will almost inevitably result in their making mistakes and misjudgments and otherwise acting badly.

Gene Weingarten

#10. When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better - particularly when they're acting badly.

Jonathan Dee

#11. We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things ...

Jonathan Safran Foer

#12. Your most precious asset is your right thinking!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Renew your mind with word of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. In his apology, Arnold Schwarzenegger said he was sorry to the women that he groped, and he admitted that he had acted badly. Not only that, Arnold then apologized for acting badly in all of his movies.

Conan O'Brien

#15. I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I've seen it.

Bill Murray

#16. Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. Never treat another in a manner which would make them feel small; not anyone, not even yourself.

Rebecca Musser

#18. Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

Mason Cooley

#19. Don't use your words to
describe the situation. Use your words to change the situation.

Joel Osteen

#20. I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy.

Jim Sturgess

#21. If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

Anthony Hopkins

#22. Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them ... They appear to me equally to perplex the adepts in science, to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the atomic theory.

John Dalton

#23. Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche