Acting Quotes
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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
Barbra Streisand -
Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.
Dustin Hoffman
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Faith is acting in the face of contrary evidence. The senses declare, "It cannot be," but Faith shouts above the turmoil, "It is!"
E. W. Kenyon -
I like to jump into different worlds. I'm attracted to the emotional rollercoaster of acting. Now I've been doing it for so many years, I must rather enjoy it.
Felicity Jones -
Acting is playing, and it is like being a big kid. Yeah, it's great. You get paid.
Olivia Colman -
I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.
Damian Lewis -
I think acting is my destiny. I did my first film when I was just eight. However, I never took that role seriously.
Nithya Menen -
The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.
Sarah Bernhardt
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Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.
Omari Hardwick -
When you're trying to find that line between are you doing comedy, are you doing drama, what are you doing, Martin, for me, anchors it very often, because he approaches it from such just a pure acting standpoint.
Orlando Jones -
The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
Kevin Spacey -
Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.
Albert Einstein
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Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn't getting any acting jobs.
Vin Diesel -
I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.
J. B. Smoove -
Taking part on this show is a million miles away from my normal acting jobs.
Nikki Sanderson -
If you give up on trying to change larger structures and just go off on what some would say is a personal indulgence or being a survivalist, it can be seen as incredibly negative or pessimistic. But the other way to think of it is this: through manifesting the way we live and acting as if it's normal, you're defending yourself against depression and dysfunction, but you're also providing a model that others can copy. And that is absolutely about bringing large-scale change.
David Holmgren -
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 -
What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.
Vincent Price
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The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
William Shakespeare -
I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be an acting drill for me. I just find it to be something very real that comes from a very gut-driven, honest place.
Christina Aguilera -
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 -
Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.
Jackie Evancho