Acting Quotes - Page 16

• You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Thinking, Luck, Actors

  "Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award Winner". www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.

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• The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

  Christopher Walken

  Littles, Mysterious, Realizing

  "Interview: Christopher Walken" By Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 6, 2004.

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• I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

  Julie Walters

  Giving Up, Giving, Want

  "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". Interview with James Mottram, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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• If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

  Federico Fellini

  Silence, Crafts, Littles

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• [Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

  Ernst Levy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and history generally, and should be centered on acting in plays rather than just exercises, improvisations, monologues, or even scenes.

  Richard Hornby

  Exercise, Play, Training

  Richard Hornby (1992). “The End of Acting: A Radical View”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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• There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Done, Shapes, Kind

  Thomas Carlyle (1891). “The Socialism and Unsocialism of Thomas Carlyle: Introduction, by the editor. Book I. Proem. Book II. The modern worker. Book III. Signs of the times. Book IV. Horoscope. Essay on the genius and tendency of the writings of Thomas Carlyle, by Joseph Mazzini. v. 2. Book V. The French revolution. Book VI. Horoscope. Essay on the genius and tendency of the writings of Thomas Carlyle, by Joseph Mazzini”

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• The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

  Seneca the Younger

  Voice, Noise, Mere

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• Every little moment has a meaning all its own.

  Sanford Meisner

  Littles, Moments, Little Moments

  Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.46, Vintage

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• What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.

  Jensen Ackles

  Grateful, Journey, People

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• I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Littles, Film, Mediocre

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• I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

  Kabir Bedi

  Theatre, Pay, Bills

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• Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

  Juliette Binoche

  Needs, Shapes, Tough

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• There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

  Nicolas Cage

  Actors, Lines, Method

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

  George Clooney

  Jobs, Fall, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Mistake, Warrior

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 14, 2010

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

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

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• An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

  James Dean

  Order, Feet, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

  Will Durant

  Political, Triumph, Majority

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

  Clint Eastwood

  Drama, Used, Coaches

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• No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

  Euripides

  Freedom, Law, People

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• I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

  James Franco

  Scared, Kind, Failing

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• Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

  Anna Freud

  Friendship, Hate, Reliability

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• It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

  Christian Bale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

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

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• Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  People, Personality, Actors

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