Acting Quotes
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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.
Oscar Wilde -
I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
Ice T
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
Jack Herer -
I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.
Beverly Johnson -
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Ralph Richardson -
I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
Danica McKellar -
I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
Uta Hagen -
I haven't actually studied acting at all.
Kat Dennings
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
Queen Latifah -
Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
Ed Harris -
Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
Damon Galgut -
You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
Laura Bell Bundy -
I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
Forest Whitaker
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Acting is in your soul.
LaTanya Richardson -
Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
Victoria Wood -
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian McShane -
If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
Jack Falahee -
I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
Lance Reddick
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
Ian Holm -
I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.
Kate Bosworth -
The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
Lance Henriksen -
As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.
Michael C. Hall