Acting Quotes
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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 -
I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.
Ethan Hawke
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Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
Paul Newman -
The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.
Jessica Brown Findlay -
I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.
Tommy Chong -
Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
Whoopi Goldberg -
I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Tim Robbins -
Acting is embarrassing.
Essie Davis
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I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.
Saoirse Ronan -
You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.
Whoopi Goldberg -
Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.
Michael Shannon -
All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'
Whoopi Goldberg -
I love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.
Swara Bhaskar -
That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.
Michael Shannon
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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 -
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 looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
Michael Caine -
I definitely caught acting bug.
Ray Fisher -
There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!
Cecily von Ziegesar -
Acting is not my language at all.
Mikhail Baryshnikov