Acting Quotes
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
Cameron Dallas
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
William S. Burroughs
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You never really see me acting a fool on TV.
Vinny Guadagnino
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Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.
Neil Diamond
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[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry.
Samuel Barnett
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You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.
Rachel McAdams
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I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could get my hands on, so it was something that was a part of me from a very early age.
Yvonne Strahovski
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Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.
Sabrina Carpenter
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My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.
Olivia Cooke
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I love acting, love it. It's the greatest fun in the world. I've never had trouble feeling extremely grateful.
Isla Fisher
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Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.
Shailene Woodley
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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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I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
Mara Wilson
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Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.
Callie Hernandez
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The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.
Pablo Picasso
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Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
James Garner
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
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I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.
John Travolta
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I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.
Madison Pettis
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I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.
Erika Eleniak
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Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.
Crispian Mills
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I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.
Dabney Coleman
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
Natalie Portman
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Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.
Tara Strong