Acting Quotes
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If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.
Paul Morrissey
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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.
Michael Shannon
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I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.
Stephen Rea
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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.
Melissa Leo
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Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.
Molly Shannon
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My life is full, and I love it. Acting is the frosting on the cake for me.
Alex Meneses
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The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... he must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.
Sarah Bernhardt
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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.
Ernest Gold
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I like acting because I get to find different parts of myself, or at least create different parts that don't already exist, and see the world through someone else's eyes.
Bex Taylor-Klaus
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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.
Susan Strasberg
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My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.
Phil Daniels
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I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.
Monica Keena
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You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
Josh Hartnett
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The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.
Sharlto Copley
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Muslims who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to anybody else, or even want to help them with the better education, but if they cross the line of crime, start acting according to Sharia law, there will be no place for them in our free societies.
Geert Wilders
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
Michael Caine
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I think acting is overrated. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It's wonderful for some people, but I found it nerve-wracking. I was too busy worrying that no one would give me their words to speak.
Nina Conti
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Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.
Celia Imrie
