Acting Quotes
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Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.
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My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
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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.
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I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.
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I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
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I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.
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Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.
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I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.
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My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a career. Everyone in my family went to university - my older brother is a lawyer - but when they saw me for the first time at the theatre, they thought, "OK". They like it very much now.
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They are very good reasons why voice acting in games can be so terrible. Writers are in a great position to be able to bridge this gap.
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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.
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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.
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Dancing and acting satisfy me in different ways.
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It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.
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I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
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I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
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I think I was drawn to acting just as a way of getting noticed.
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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.
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My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.
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It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.
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I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well, but is intensely rewarding. Particularly the chance to help draw out the best in young actors.
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Acting is making it seem like it's happening now.
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I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.
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For the first time there was constructed with this machine locomotive engine a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life.
