Acting Quotes
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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.
Summer Altice
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Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.
Tommy Lee Jones
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I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.
Sharon Horgan
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A career in acting, it's a learning process.
Nick Nolte
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Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.
Steve Burns
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You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.
Michael Caine
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Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
Ben Miller
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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
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If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.
Charles Baxter
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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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I'm leaving town cause my children are acting too much like me.
Richard Kind
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Make acting seem real and as if it werent acting. Just make it real.
Joseph Mazzello
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Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.
Humphrey Bogart
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I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.
Jonathan Ke Quan
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I myself won't do anything, but I won't stop anyone else from acting.
Walther von Brauchitsch
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It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.
Stockard Channing
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Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
Sofia Coppola
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I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
Marilyn Monroe
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I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.
Heath Ledger
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I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.
Sufe Bradshaw
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As long as the acting is good, I can appreciate it.
Nia Long
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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.
Ethel Waters
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With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.
Nina Conti