Acting Quotes
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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 -
The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.
Steve Zahn
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I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.
Paul Giamatti -
Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.
Julianne Hough -
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 -
Because I came into acting late, my references come from real life. That's my biggest inspiration. It's probably the reason I moved back to New York. I'm just a lot more inspired by real life than I am by depictions of real life.
Romany Malco -
I didn't study acting.
Ray Walston -
Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.
Ruth Gordon
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Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
Judy Holliday -
It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.
Bill Murray -
Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.
William Friedkin -
Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.
Clarence John Laughlin -
I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.
Jonathan Ke Quan -
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
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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 -
At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.
Catherine Hicks -
I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin.
Rupert Penry-Jones -
I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.
Tim Robbins -
Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio -
My number one passion is acting, but I also think there's something so special in being able to support a script and an idea and take it all the way through to fruition. I think that process is so rewarding.
Roberto Aguire
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My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.
Phil Daniels -
I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.
Debra Dean -
I sort of look at acting like that: if you have no confines, you have everywhere to go.
Summer Phoenix -
I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasnt being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.
Nolan Gould