Acting Quotes
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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
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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 love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.
Pam Dawber
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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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I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.
Oona Chaplin
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Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.
Anthony Rapp
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Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm.
Giovanni Morassutti
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I actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.
Tasha Smith
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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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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
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Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.
George C. Scott
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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've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
J. D. Souther
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There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.
Victoria Pratt
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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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After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.
Wallace Shawn
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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 couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.
John Travolta
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I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.
Tamsin Greig
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I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.
Tamsin Greig
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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 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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To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom. I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business, which is where I am now.
Beverly Johnson