Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.Ray Bradbury
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I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.
Fiona Dourif -
I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
Eddie Murphy -
I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.
Lance Gross -
I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
Laura Donnelly -
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Washington Irving
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
Adam McKay -
Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
Tea Leoni -
I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
Natasha Lyonne -
My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
Natalie Dormer -
As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
Ian McShane -
You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
Gary Sinise
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People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.
Adam Garcia -
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 -
Acting's more of a business for me now.
Randy Quaid -
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
Adam Beach -
I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.
Kara Hayward -
With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.
Sam Shepard
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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
Oscar Wilde -
That's what acting is all about - it's all about bringing truth from your own life, and putting it into your characters. If you have the advantage of using your own life in your work, that's always the way to go.
Michael Eklund -
What is also true is that partly because my docket was really full here, so I couldn't be both chief organizer of the Democratic Party and function as Commander-in-Chief and President of the United States. We did not begin what I think needs to happen over the long haul, and that is rebuild the Democratic Party at the ground level.
Barack Obama -
I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
Landon Donovan -
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
Simon Mawer -
Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
Ray Bradbury