Acting Quotes
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I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile in "Cars". That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?
Paul Newman -
Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.
Reid Scott
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I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.
Reeve Carney -
The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.
Mike Leigh -
In the end, I realized that I just didn't like acting enough to put up with the stereotype and I didn't really think I was good enough to transcend it.
Susan Olsen -
I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I was still very into being cool. So I played a lot of basketball and football. But I always had that want to be in theater and to be a part of theater arts. But in my school, it was just a really nerdy thing to be a part of. Everyone in my school wore bowler hats - they were always on, always acting, and all so big. I was like, "I can't be that", even though I wanted to be.
Cedric Yarbrough -
I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.
Joshua Jackson -
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
Marilyn Monroe
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
Michael Caine -
I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open myself up more in front of an audience. Her plan was for me to just talk more.
Moises Arias -
Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
Amanda Seyfried -
I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.
Michael Shannon -
Acting requires risk, and that's what feeling vulnerable is.
Allison Holker -
Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.
Celia Imrie
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Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.
Miranda Otto -
The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.
Mike Leigh -
I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.
Paul Scofield -
I had always seen myself doing theatre, as I don't come from an acting background, so that was my first way into acting, I suppose.
Morfydd Clark -
Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.
Julianne Hough -
I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.
Jonathan Ke Quan
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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 -
The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... he must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.
Sarah Bernhardt -
We all kind of have moments like that, where we don't know why we're acting a certain way, or we can't even explain the emotion that we're feeling.
Joseph David-Jones -
It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.
Benn Northover