Acting Quotes
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If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.
Norman Vincent Peale
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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 fortunate with my acting career. A lot of scripts come to me. I don't mind auditioning if something that requires that, but I haven't had to in awhile, which is a nice place to be 'cause I've been on quite a lot of auditions in my life.
Yasiin Bey
Black Star
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This is acting like the mariner, who, when his ship is filling with water, neglects to stop the leak, or ply the pump, that he may mend his sails.
Samuel Hopkins
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I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.
Yvonne Strahovski
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I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.
Dan Byrd
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I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.
Estella Warren
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When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.
Marina Ann Hantzis
aTelecine
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So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
Ralph Fiennes
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We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
Macaulay Culkin
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Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting.
William H. Macy
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I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
Tamsin Egerton
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Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.
Samuel Barnett
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My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.
Alexander Ludwig
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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
Beau Garrett
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If you're a boxer, you want to get the ring with a Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali type. When you're acting, you want to get in with Meryl Streep, and that's what I did.
Viola Davis
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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
Adam Driver
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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
Omari Hardwick
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I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.
Eddie Marsan
