Acting Quotes
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Every time you're on stage, you're acting.
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The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.
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Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.
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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.
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I can only live my life in this way. I don't think I would be living it a different way if I wasn't acting.
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Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.
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Acting is like sex, it’s possible if your partner is bad, but it’s better if they’re good.
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I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.
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The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.
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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.
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Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.
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Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.
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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.
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I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.
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Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.
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A flair for publicity does not necessarily mean a flair for acting.
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I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.
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...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.
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Is Christianity just another special-interest group, clawing for political power? Or, even if Christians are acting as God's spokesmen, must Christians always conduct themselves politically as if Christianity were just another special-interest group? Do Christians conduct evangelism this way?.
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Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.
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I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and it was nothing I had planned to do. It was just one of those beautiful moments, the alchemy of acting that is so mysterious, where you sort of go, "How did that come out of me?"
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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.
