Acting Quotes
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Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.
Jackie Evancho
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All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.
Ariana Grande
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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
Elia Kazan
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Most actors don't know what they're going to do next, so you get into this thing where you have to force yourself to have another life outside of acting. And then, as soon as you start something in this sort of normal life that you're trying to live, you get a job. So you have this constant struggle because you want to be able to commit to things and to finish things in your life, but then you also want to be able to act.
Winona Ryder
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Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.
Ralph Richardson
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The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
William Shakespeare
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There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.
T. J. Miller
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I started acting when I moved to California when I was nineteen. I started auditioning. I was waiting on my manager at the time. I was waiting on her table, and she sent me on an audition. From there, I just kept auditioning and, luckily, got parts.
Laura Ramsey
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All rappers predominantly sound the same and want you to think their meanest person in the world, and that they're all gangster and all that. My acting allowed me to be playful and crazy, and it helps me tell stories and all that. I think it's a good time; rap needs that kind of stuff.
Nicki Minaj
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I think the performances that really communicate with me are the ones where I don't feel like I'm watching someone and thinking: "They're doing some really good acting." It's when I'm literally completely consumed by the story-telling and the actor or actress is evoking something in me. I think that's so powerful and cinema and TV has so much power.
Aisling Loftus
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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
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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
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I'm really focused and committed to teaching now. Maybe when I'm about 30, which is in 10 years, I would like to consider doing something like speech therapy. That's what I really would like to do. I could go and do that now but it's not my drive at the moment. My drive is acting right now.
Rachel Hurd-Wood
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Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more.
Ang Lee
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Acting is playing, and it is like being a big kid. Yeah, it's great. You get paid.
Olivia Colman
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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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My acting teacher, Earle Gister. He had a genius for knowing exactly where every one of us were in our development as actors. He always knew precisely what to say or suggest to unlock a moment. He somehow always made it seem like it was our idea. I call him 'The Invisible Hand.'
Michael Potts
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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
