Acting Quotes
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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
Melissa Leo -
Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.
Susannah York
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The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.
Alex Gansa -
My one piece of advice to anyone trying to do acting - this would just be to keep going. It sounds really basic, but I went to 121 auditions my first year in L.A. That is no exaggeration, because I keep lists - I know it's a little psychotic - of every audition that I have ever
Ana Mulvoy-Ten -
I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started Homeland.
Morgan Saylor -
When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.
Isiah Whitlock, Jr. -
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 -
Acting - I'm good at it, but it's not my passion. Music, I'm not as good at, but that's my passion. I think I'm just going to go with the flow, wait until one picks up, and take the opportunities one at the time.
Israel Broussard
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Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.
Josh McDowell -
Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.
Mike Epps -
I realized that acting was the thing I was still maybe the best at. Of the things I felt like I was good at, that was the thing that came the most naturally to me.
Joseph Mazzello -
Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?
Natalie Portman -
I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.
Celia Imrie -
I have such a strong acting background because I know what I'm looking for, I know what the needs are, and I know acting when I see it.
Charles Martin Smith
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With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.
Nina Conti -
Being an actress does not mean that each thing that happens in my life has to be news or meant to be shared with others. Acting is a profession, and once I leave the sets, I want to be left alone.
Nithya Menen -
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
Tim Robbins -
The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from a play I was in.
Poorna Jagannathan -
My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.
Anne Hathaway -
It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.
Viola Davis
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The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.
Charles A. Murray -
During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn't be a teacher. My aunt Beth's friend was Jackie Gleason's daughter, Linda Miller. She encouraged me to talk to her. After doing that, she recommended Catholic University's M.F.A. acting program. So that's what I did.
Siobhan Fallon Hogan -
I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.
Michael Shannon -
I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.
Celia Imrie