Acting Quotes
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
Michael Caine -
Everything about acting was either the opposite of my personality or it just didn't seem like something I wanted to be a part of.
Sasha Lane
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The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.
Ernest Borgnine -
The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.
Sharlto Copley -
You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
Josh Hartnett -
I think the greatest gift actually acting is that I have a true fascination and love for people, and the way they are, and all the choices they made in life and all the different paths they took. I feel like acting gives me an opportunity to dig a little bit into that. That's great because it's eye-opening and it makes you an open person.
Wes Bentley -
Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.
Joseph Mawle -
I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
Paul Newman
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If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.
Michael Caine -
I'm acting from my heart. The way how I feel is the way how I act.
Sibel Kekilli -
The worst acting is about imitation.
Paul Guilfoyle -
No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.
Michael Caine -
Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.
Mickey Rourke -
I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.
Paul Newman
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I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.
Sarah Shahi -
I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.
Ewan McGregor -
A little secret about actors is that we never think we do a great job in auditions. We kind of just go in and do our work and leave sort of hoping for the best. It's an interesting dynamic - acting is such an interesting job. You never quite know how well you do.
Sufe Bradshaw -
I hadn't really thought about doing any acting at all post-'Center Stage.'
Sascha Radetsky -
I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.
Josh Brolin -
You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.
Michael Ealy
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I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.
Mickey Rourke -
I think acting is getting better and better.
William H. Macy -
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
Michael Caine -
It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.
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