Acting Quotes
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Fay Weldon
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
Octavia Spencer
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I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing a television show, though. I actually think there are a couple of good ones. And there is some terrible theater. Film is a very different kind of acting.
Dan Futterman
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
Adam McKay
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
Waris Ahluwalia
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
Barry Levinson
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Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.
Adam Driver
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
Wallace Shawn
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
Katey Sagal
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Acting is a life of rejection.
Lauren Bacall
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
Vanessa Morgan
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I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.
Felicia Day
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I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.
Michael Caine
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Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.
Pamela Meyer
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I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
Larry Bishop
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
Jaclyn Smith
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I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.
Patrick Schwarzenegger
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The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
Cameron Monaghan
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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
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Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.
Scott Glenn
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I've never been in an acting class in my life.
Kaley Cuoco
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Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
Ian Mckellen
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Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.
Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr.
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I like to stretch my acting muscles.
Samantha Morton