Acting Quotes - Page 13

• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Life

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.55, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

  Thornton Wilder

  Art, Theatre, Actors

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• The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

  Stella Adler

  Mean, Greek, Theatre

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.29, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

  John Lithgow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Play

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• Acting is making it seem like it's happening now.

  Anne Jackson

  Happenings, Seems

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• So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

  Todd Rundgren

  Thinking, People, Shells

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

  Jim Henson

  Design, Theatre, Littles

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• The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Real, Opportunity, Draws

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• Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.

  Nikki Cox

  Ill, Wanted, Prepared

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• I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

  Jeffrey Combs

  Opportunity, Mixtures, Instinct

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• There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

  Dennis Farina

  School, Actors, Whole

  "Guy's Guys: A Chat With Snatch Stars Jason Statham And Dennis Farina". Interview With Smriti Mundhra, www.ign.com. January 18, 2001.

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• I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

  Michael Ironside

  Writing, Lessons

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• Acting is always a challenge.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Challenges

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• Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

  Meg Tilly

  Children, Firsts, Whole Life

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• But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

  James MacArthur

  Successful, Careers, Today

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• When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

  Leslie Easterbrook

  Character, Play, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

  Stella Adler

  Ideas, Choices, Feelings

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.65, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse.

  Edmund Waller

  Artist, Play, Knowing

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1796). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. From Mr. Fenton's Quarto Edition, 1729. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait.]”

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• I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Giving, Lovers

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

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• While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.

  Meryl Streep

  Believe, Awards, Purpose

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• Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.

  Meryl Streep

  Men, Skills, Survival

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• The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.

  Pico Iyer

  Love, Compassion, Going Away

  Pico Iyer (2006). “The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto”, p.336, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.

  Tina Fey

  Men, Halfway There, Play

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• You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.

  Tina Fey

  Home, Thinking, People

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• Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Crush, Morning

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