Acting Quotes
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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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I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people
William Hurt
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I've been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16, it's difficult to find roles and to find yourself, even, and when everyone's eyes are on you, it's difficult.
Moises Arias
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I think that I originally became an actor because I was super, super dramatic. Over the top, all the time. I was the kid that would bump my knee and scream and cry as if I'd been shot in the face. So just automatically, the only outlet for my drama was acting and I loved theater.
Alanna Masterson
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Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
Robin Williams
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I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.
Ethan Embry
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I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
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I am sure that there is a lot more going on in the objective real world than we can monitor with our five senses. I think dreams allow us to engage with the real world and monitor the way it is acting on us.
Amy Hardie
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I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.
Michael C. Hall
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Study your craft, first. Then explore the business side. If you can commit to mastering both, then you're ready to pursue acting as a living. I really want people to understand that you can't take shortcuts.
Michael Ealy
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We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I shall miss greatly. I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.
Peter O'Toole
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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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I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.
Vivien Leigh
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I only know acting. But had I learnt singing earlier, I would have become a singer.
Juhi Chawla
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Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.
Michael Mando
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If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.
Ricky Williams
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Acting is the most pure fun as far as jobs go, but it can be limiting in terms of freedom of expression. You are never the master of the story, just a part of it. But writing and directing give you the power of the gods.
David Hayter
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I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.
Morris Chestnut
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Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.
Sarah Polley
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Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.
Viola Davis
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A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.
Richard McCabe
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I love acting. I'm able to express myself and not get made fun of for it.
Adi Shankar
