Acting Quotes - Page 11

• Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

  Morgan Freeman

  Mean, Troupe, Wells

  FaceBook post by Morgan Freeman from Oct 27, 2013

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• Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

  William S. Burroughs

  Hipster, Men, Advantage

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• I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

  Kurt Cobain

  Firsts, Busy, Naive

  "Song: "Very Ape" ("In Utero")". September 21, 1993.

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• Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Dream, People, Invites

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• I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

  Vivien Leigh

  Should, Method, Knows

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• I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

  Steve McQueen

  Bad Ass, Men, Not Sure

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

  River Phoenix

  Halloween, Haunting, Mask

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.

  Liam Neeson

  Dog, Morning, Toilets

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• Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Opportunity, Joy

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• An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

  Marlon Brando

  Inspirational, Motivational, Order

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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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• God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

  Garrison Keillor

  Funny, Life, Encouraging

  "Happy to be Here". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1983.

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• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom suppressed introductory chapter (1926).

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• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Movie, Track, India

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• An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.

  Eve Ensler

  Fighting, Compassion, Mad

  Jody Williams, Eve Ensler (2013). “My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

  Marva Collins

  Happiness, Success, Suicide

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• The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every person out there isn't dating a writer.

  Rachel Bloom

  Sexy, Writing, Intelligent

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• Act as if what you intend to manifest in life is already a reality. Eliminate thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the possibility of it not manifesting. If left undisturbed in your mind and in the mind of intention simultaneously, it will germinate in the physical world.

  Wayne Dyer

  Reality, Mind, World

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from May 06, 2011

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• In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

  Gary Cooper

  Funny, Girl, Horse

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• My goal on the show was to be professional. But sometimes you cant help who you have a connection with, and you can only fight it for so long - which I did for a really, really long time.

  Nina Dobrev

  Relationship, Fighting, Long

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• Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

  Gordon Parks

  Life, Enthusiasm, Habit

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• My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mom, Mother Daughter, Business

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real.

  Ivan Sutherland

  Real, Challenges, Sound

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• When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone on the stage. All the great figures of history ... will realize that they have been but actors in a drama produced by another.

  Helmut Thielicke

  God, Jesus, Drama

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