Acting Quotes
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Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
Sam Heughan
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When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
Tahj Mowry
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
Ingrid Bergman
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
Fiona Shaw
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I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.
Beverly Johnson
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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
Valerie Azlynn
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I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
Bebe Neuwirth
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I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.
Fiona Dourif
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Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
Aaliyah
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
Dabney Coleman
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I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
Fiona Gubelmann
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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
Parker Posey
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Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence does not render him incautious, and too much diffidence does not render him intolerant. From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
Olivia Cooke
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I want to do acting as much as I can. When you're on contract with a show, you can't really do other shows. It's hard to do film. I haven't had the opportunity to even audition much for films because I don't have an agent.
Retta
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
Mahershala Ali
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
Jack Lowden
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
Haley Joel Osment
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
Jack Dee
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
Zoe Kazan
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My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
Abigail Breslin
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I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
Hannah Ware
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I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.
Jacob Artist
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
Oprah Winfrey