Acting Quotes
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I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
Malin Akerman -
Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
Nathan Fillion
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I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
Tammy Blanchard -
They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
Ed Asner -
A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.
Rainey Qualley -
With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
Sam Shepard -
It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
Eddie Redmayne -
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
Sam Neill -
I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
Famke Janssen -
I'm very serious about acting.
Victor Garber -
I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
Ed Asner
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
Nate Parker -
My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
Eddie Redmayne -
And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.
Viola Davis -
Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements.
D. W. Griffith -
I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
Sam Jaeger -
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
W. H. Auden
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
Sam Riley -
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
Fatima Sana Shaikh