Acting Quotes - Page 15

• I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

  Elizabeth Pena

  Vacation, Nightmare, Wonderful

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• I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Education, Study, Educate

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• But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman

  Shelley Duvall

  Past, Years, Taught

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• And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

  Joan Collins

  Writing, Stories, Littles

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• I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing

  Peter Fonda

  Writing, Want, Saddles

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• I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler

  Judd Nelson

  New York, School, Years

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• I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop

  Shane West

  Giving Up, Not Giving Up, Giving

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• There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting

  Taryn Manning

  Singing, Useless, Ifs

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• In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

  Joseph Joubert

  Dream, Believe, Able

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

  Charles Churchill

  Lying, Crime, Danger

  'An Epistle to William Hogarth' (1763) l. 51

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• For me, acting is doing.

  Pierce Brosnan

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• I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

  Pola Negri

  Analysis, Psychological, Ability

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  If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

  Laurette Taylor

  Emotional, Physical Attraction, Projection

  "The Quality You Need Most". Green Book Magazine, April 1914.

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• I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.

  Ben Kingsley

  Healing, Night, Thinking

  "Ben Kingsley Talks Oliver Twist". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 20, 2005.

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• So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

  Lee Iacocca

  Moving On, Procrastination, Long

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• I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

  Nicole Kidman

  Zoos, Children, Fun

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Nov 29, 2016

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• A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.

  Heidi Klum

  Doors, Cities, Littles

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• I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music, you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have.

  Denis Leary

  Thinking, Work Ethic, Musician

  "The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Careers, Judgment, Alcoholics

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• Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

  Shemar Moore

  Dream, Baseball, Player

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

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• Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

  River Phoenix

  Hobbies, Making Money, Conviction

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

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• After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

  Joe Rogan

  People, Done, Humans

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• I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.

  Portia de Rossi

  School, Law, Stills

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

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• Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

  William Shatner

  Writing, Men, Lazy Man

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