Acting Quotes
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If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!
Eleonora Duse
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I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like something else entirely. It felt like the difference between, I don't know, waiting tables and painting a great work of art. It's night and day. I didn't feel like it was even acting.
Viola Davis
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I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.
Ving Rhames
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I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.
Geraldine Chaplin
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For people who don't know or didn't know that I started off as a singer, singing requires a certain level of drama, in itself. Honestly, it really prepared me to do this, and I've been really blessed to be able to transition into the acting world very smoothly.
Naturi Naughton
3LW
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If somebody is acting maladjusted - which means not happy to be at Rikers - the protocol, as I understand it and have been told by COs unofficially or officially, is to pepper spray that individual to sedate them.
Cecily McMillan
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Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
Caterina Murino
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I couldn't be messing around and acting like an 11-year-old if we expected to compete well. I wanted to compete well, because it was great to see the looks in the eyes of menlike, "Wow, I am having a hard time beating this kid."
Karch Kiraly
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Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only these were gifts from God when I get an idea, but everything I have done that I really love has had a lot of hard work behind it.
Michael Leunig
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Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.
Tom Hanks
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Acting is something I feel good about doing, I'm lucky enough to love my job as well.
Asher D
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I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.
Jeff Goldblum
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Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.
Peter O'Toole
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I consider myself a writer. I always wanted to act, and as a teen, I studied acting devotedly. Eventually, I got writing work, but very little acting work.
Winnie Holzman
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I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention.
Michiel Huisman
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Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.
Santino Fontana
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In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I'll be at both acting and living.
Jean Seberg
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Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.
Steve Martin
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I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.
Cary Grant
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Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
William James
