Victor Mature Quotes

I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.

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• I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • City
  • Acting
  • Lake

• I'm more interested in producing than acting.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Acting
  • More
  • Interested

• I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Music
  • Help
  • Career

• Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Acting

• My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Sweet
  • Times
  • Manners

• When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • English
  • Thought

• Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • America
  • Acting

• I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Childhood
  • Acting
  • Pride

• My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Skills

• I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Serious

• Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Acting
  • Profession
  • Singular

• I don't take myself too seriously.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Myself
  • Take
  • Seriously

• I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Know
  • More
  • Times

• Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Acting

• I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Know
  • Courage
  • Acting

• Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Business
  • Political
  • Acting

• I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Time
  • Done
  • Acting

• Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Crazy
  • Acting
  • Industry

• Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Chance
  • Mankind
  • Given

• God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Might
  • Willing
  • Nominations

• I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Love
  • Patience
  • Learned

• When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Worry
  • Company
  • Cake

• It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.

  

  Sylvie Meis
  • Funny
  • Moment
  • Bald

• I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Acting
  • Times
  • Seriously