Acting Quotes
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Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.
Jackie Evancho -
By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.
Norman Vincent Peale
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The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
Francesca Annis -
Acting is a life of rejection.
Lauren Bacall -
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 -
I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.
Nathan Gamble -
The best part of acting is the rehearsal, because that is where the real discovery comes. And if you're lucky, some of that actually makes it onto the page and some of that actually makes it onto the screen.
Hal Linden -
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
Loni Anderson
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The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
Seth Godin -
There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.
T. J. Miller -
I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my friends.
Lena Horne -
Once I got started acting I loved it.
Jack Nicholson -
Acting like you don’t care is a whole lot easier when you don’t care.
Ally Carter -
I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.
Norma Deloris Egstrom
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The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.
Jane Elliot -
I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.
Amy Poehler -
When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.
Vincent Cassel -
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
Michael Caine -
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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Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.
Kevin Spacey -
Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.
Ralph Richardson -
The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.
Scott Bakula -
I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story.
Naturi Naughton 3LW