Acting Quotes
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Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.
Paul Newman
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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
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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
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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
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You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.
Carrie Fisher
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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
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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
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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
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There's life after acting.
Suzanne Crough
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When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
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
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Acting is not my language at all.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
