Acting Quotes
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Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.
Michael B. Jordan -
All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'
Whoopi Goldberg
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Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
Whoopi Goldberg -
I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.
Saoirse Ronan -
You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
Michael Caine -
That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
Michael Caine -
This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power... it doesn't really work that way. I don't ever really feel powerful in any way. It's kind of the same thing it's always been: You just figure out what you want to do and you do it.
Michael Shannon -
I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Tim Robbins
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Acting is embarrassing.
Essie Davis -
Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
Judy Blume -
The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.
Jessica Brown Findlay -
Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.
Michael Shannon -
I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.
Tommy Chong -
There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!
Cecily von Ziegesar
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I love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.
Swara Bhaskar -
I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.
Ned Vizzini -
I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.
Ethan Hawke -
That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.
Michael Shannon -
I definitely caught acting bug.
Ray Fisher -
Acting is not my language at all.
Mikhail Baryshnikov