Acting Quotes
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I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.
Stephen Rea -
There are quite a few things that the devil could tempt me with... I could be tempted by youth if I was allowed to hold on to all the wisdom that I've gotten. In everything, not just sports. In life. In acting. I'd be tempted by youth only so I could continue doing it a little longer.
George Clooney
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Seneca the Younger -
Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.
Miranda Rae Mayo -
Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.
Nikki Cox -
Dancing and acting satisfy me in different ways.
Julianne Hough
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Acting, I get to explore other people and other characters; with music, I get to express and explore myself.
Michael J. Willett -
If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.
Theophrastus -
I approach my work with a passionate intensity, acting as if its success depends entirely on me. "But once I've done my best, I try to let go as much as possible and have no expectations about how my work will be received by the world."
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
Anna Brackett -
I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process
William Hurt -
My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original production of 'A Chorus Line' in an easy tie with the first 10 -15 minutes of Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie' that hooked me on the romantic idea that the impossible, difficult life of a struggling actor was for me.
John Lloyd Young
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I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.
Chad Everett -
I knew my destiny from a young age. Something happened when I was very young and I didn't know what it meant. And slowly but surely I know this is only getting better. Writing I love. The acting will carry on as long as I can remember lines.
David Dayan Fisher -
Acting is reacting... there's a magic when you're working with another actor. With voice acting, you're doing it alone, all in your head. So, you have to re-create that essence by yourself. It's not necessarily more difficult. It's just a different set of skills.
Josh Keaton -
Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.
Walter Inglis Anderson -
I didn't grow up, really, in the film business, even though my parents are both artists. I grew up in New York City. They would never put me into acting. I just kind of wanted it, and I told them that.
Julia Garner -
Maybe the the luxury of not having acting be my only profession is that I can be more selective about what I choose to be in. I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.
Ricky Jay
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I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower than a 10 handicap on my golf game, I'd be thrilled.
Paul Michael Glaser -
I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
Simon Callow -
Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
Humphrey Bogart -
Kids really take you out of yourself, and your priorities become really clear. With acting and the business, you don't really have priorities. You have no idea what each day or week's going to be like.
Josie Bissett