Acting Quotes
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I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
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I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I'm different from the people who dreamed about it.
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They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
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Gary Ross one of those directors which lets you do what you need to do to become your character - he lets you try to do everything on your own when you're acting. Then at some points he would say, "Let's try this," or "Let's try that." Most of the time he just kind of let me try to just become my character on my own and it worked out really well.
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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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Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.
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I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.
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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.
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I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of the year and act for about two months. I would make what I needed from acting and would stretch it out.
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I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people
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God’s Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It’s not only descriptive; it’s effective too, God speaking is God acting.
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I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art.
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Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!
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You know what’s more insane than slaughterhouses? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.
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I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
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It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.
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I talked with Tom Hanks. I saw that movie 'Turner and Hooch' at least 50 times. It took all my guts to go up to him. I went up to him, I was like, 'Can I have a picture?' We talked acting; he wanted to know what I was doing. We talked a little tennis. I mean, he knew all about myself and my sister.
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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.
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Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing. No one would cast a dancing part with someone who cannot dance sufficiently to come up to professional standards. The same is true of acting. But when it comes to singing, more often than not it is amateur night. . . . Either musicals should be written for specified performers in the first place, or they should be cast with people who are adequate to its dancing, acting and singing demands.
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I'm acting from my heart. The way how I feel is the way how I act.
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My acting career wasn't going where I wanted it to. I wasn't getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.
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Every director should take an acting class.
