Acting Quotes
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The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.
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I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.
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I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
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The longer you are in acting business, the more you cherish the times when you're working with people that do great work, and can figure out how to enjoy themselves while they're doing the great work.
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I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a single reporter or show called back for details. I wrote and sent documentation to all the 'household word' TV talk show hosts who make their living acting 'concerned' and I tried all the 'AIDS fund raising spokespeople', show business celebs, even sending proof of their home addresses, but as of yet not one single phone call or inquiry came back for more.
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That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.
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By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person.
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What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.
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Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.
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Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.
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What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
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I feel like music and acting are so much my love, and they're so much equal in my eyes. I couldn't really choose between the two.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
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Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.
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With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.
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They are very good reasons why voice acting in games can be so terrible. Writers are in a great position to be able to bridge this gap.
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It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.
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I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my friends.
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Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun.
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I mean there's that awesome quote where Joanne Woodward said, 'Acting is like sex: you should do it, not talk about it.'
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Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.
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Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.
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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
