Acting Quotes
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When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
Salma Hayek
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I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.
Carole King
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I want to do acting as much as I can. When you're on contract with a show, you can't really do other shows. It's hard to do film. I haven't had the opportunity to even audition much for films because I don't have an agent.
Retta
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
Sam Shepard
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I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.
Jacob Artist
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me. So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.
Laura San Giacomo
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
Ice Cube
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I'd like to do more acting.
Garry Shandling
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
Ian Mckellen
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A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Nancy Reagan
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
Hank Azaria
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
Felicity Jones
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Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
Mahershala Ali
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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
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I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
Olivia Williams
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
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I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
Dan Castellaneta
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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
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
Danica McKellar
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
Gail Sheehy
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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
Dana Spiotta
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
Aasif Mandvi
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
Maddie Hasson