Acting Quotes
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I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.
Hayden Christensen -
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
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I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.
Sarah Parish -
In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set.
Terrence J -
The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.
Steve Martin -
Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.
Dustin Hoffman -
I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.
Sufe Bradshaw -
In hockey, there are no second chances, but the great thing about acting is that there actually are. If you do a scene and you think you can do better - take two!
Wyatt Russell
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There's an awful lot to be desired. I've gone to places where people say to me, "What's your technique?" Technique? What the hell technique is there to acting? We're acting because even with my voice I'm giving what I think is what I want to say.
Ernest Borgnine -
I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.
Troy Garity -
Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.
Paul Giamatti -
I'm just looking for good work. I just really love acting, and I'd like to jump on something that's really exciting for me.
Noel Fisher -
The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to continue or to correct it, so I am aware of identity and race as being much more fluid, I think, than someone who is "purely" one thing or the other. And acting does challenge me to address those particular issues.
Wentworth Miller -
Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.
Swoosie Kurtz
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Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.
Nick Robinson -
I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio -
I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.
Noomi Rapace -
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.
Sierra McCormick -
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 -
It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.
Steve Buscemi
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I wanted to be a pro volleyball player, and I fell in love with performance and audience response. The pressure of performing and doing something that I love doing in front of people who were grateful to see it. That relationship sort of worked out to be acting and theatre.
Dan Payne -
I think I was drawn to acting just as a way of getting noticed.
Michael Rispoli -
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.
Rhianna Pratchett -
I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.
Norman Fell