Acting Quotes
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There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
Richard Feynman -
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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If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.
Ethan Hawke -
I could have made it as a singer, but I went with acting - surrendered to it, in a way.
Harry Dean Stanton -
You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.
Carrie Fisher -
It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling when you wrote the song. They're the same thing, in a way; it's expressing your emotions through words.
Ryan Newman -
The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
Whoopi Goldberg -
For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.
Eva Green
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I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.
Evan Peters -
There's life after acting.
Suzanne Crough -
Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].
Michael B. Jordan -
I feel like you have to pull from some personal experiences [to acting]. At least that's how I work sometimes. It's just easier that way. And I try it as best as I can and kind of dissolve myself and become a character, not me, or just blur the lines.
Michael B. Jordan -
Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.
Josh Gad -
At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
Ewan McGregor
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Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.
Michael B. Jordan -
Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
Carrie Fisher -
It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
Michael Caine -
Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
Simon Sinek -
I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.
Tommy Chong -
That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
Michael Caine
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I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.
Ned Vizzini -
I have been acting for over 20 years and I started in the smallest little theater that you can possibly imagine and then I very slowly built myself to this point. So it is never like there is this real sharp change or something that really startled me. It has just been very gradual.
Michael Shannon -
I've never worked with an acting coach, no.
Ewan McGregor -
You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
Michael Caine