Acting Quotes - Page 17

• Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

  Kate Reid

  Emotional, Actors, Able

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• An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

  Alec Guinness

  Personality, Ego, Diction

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

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• The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, College, Men

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• This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.

  Philip Massinger

  Jew

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• In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.

  Stella Adler

  Who I Am, Arrogance, Secret

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.131, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

  James Dean

  Inspirational, Motivational, Following Instructions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.

  Ewan McGregor

  Proud, Hard, I Can

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• There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Thinking, People, Secret

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• When an acting teacher tells a student 'that wasn't honest work' or 'that didn't seem real,' what does this mean? In life, we are rarely 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. And characters in plays are almost never 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. What exactly do teachers even mean by these words? A more useful question is: What is the story the actor was telling in their work? An actor is always telling a story. We all are telling stories, all the time. Story: that is what it is all about.

  Stella Adler

  Teacher, Real, Character

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• There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

  Alexander Pope

  Monsters, Pits, Wit

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 304

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• The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, Warrior, Opportunity

  "Quotes That Help You Survive". Book by Harpreet Kaur Kapoor, 2006.

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• Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

  Robert Lloyd

  Men, Mirrors, Faithful

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• One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

  Stella Adler

  Imagination, Way, Scientist

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.71, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Men, Mind, Special

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• I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

  Debby Ryan

  Years, Want, Disappear

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• To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

  Roberto Benigni

  Lying, Principles, Pretending

  "Does this man really think the Holocaust was a big joke?" by Roberto Benigni, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 1999.

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• Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Zero, Lessons, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

  Al Pacino

  Truth, Lying, Montana

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• Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

  Meryl Streep

  Art, Empathy, Actors

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• It's an acting job - acting natural.

  Alistair Cooke

  Jobs, Natural

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• I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

  Danny Bonaduce

  School, Bumps, Lines

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• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Scott Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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• An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

  Norma Shearer

  Ego, Actresses, Talent

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• There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Unfaithful, Untrue

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

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