Acting Quotes
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I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.
Judy Holliday
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.
Michael Caine
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What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
Katharine Hepburn
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Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.
John Travolta
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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.
Aly Michalka Aly & AJ
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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.'
Kristen Stewart
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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.
Rhianna Pratchett
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There are two things that really move me: music and acting. And I'm not talking about my music or watching myself as an actor, but listening to other people's music and watching other actors. There are so many different songs that have moved me. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in at that moment.
Janet Jackson
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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.
Scott Bakula
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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.
Lena Horne
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It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
Harry Stack Sullivan
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In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.
Bela Lugosi
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To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
William Hazlitt
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I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.
Catherine Mary Stewart
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The thing that I am most passionate about would be acting.
Elizabeth Tan
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Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the strength to move on from adversity in my work.
Sebastian Roche
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When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.
Nolan Gould
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Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.
Peter O'Toole
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Taking part on this show is a million miles away from my normal acting jobs.
Nikki Sanderson
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I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.
Molly Ringwald
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Whenever I am in my videos, it's rare. A lot of it is, they feel more live and hyper-realist, rather than fantasy. People would just be like, "Oh, Skrillex is acting in this video," and it wouldn't work as well.
Sonny John Moore
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It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank - there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me.
Susan Strasberg
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Many people with autism struggle with reading nonverbal cues and acting on them. When you lose that ability to understand and process nonverbal cues, you're at a huge disadvantage socially.
Rana el Kaliouby