Acting Quotes - Page 18

• They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

  William Hazlitt

  Dream, Hypocrite, Actors

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.218

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• The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Real, Writing

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• Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

  Glenn Close

  Funny, Humorous, Actors

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

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• Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  People, Theatre, Ordinary

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• Only the gentle are ever really strong.

  James Dean

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Things To Do, Neurotic

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• I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

  Aaliyah

  Character, Action, Scene

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• I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Filled Up, Literature, Next

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• The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Change, Thinking, Way

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.93, Penguin

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• acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors.

  Diane Keaton

  Actors, Wild Ride, Company

  Diane Keaton (2011). “Then Again”, p.90, Random House

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• Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.

  Camryn Manheim

  Years, Rejection, Constitution

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• The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Country, Actors, Citizenship

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• I am fairly embraced by the Hollywood community, and I love making movies and I love acting, but I'm not real crazy about the Hollywood system. So the fact that they embrace me is a shock to me because I tell them to kiss my ass all the time. I don't understand why they haven't thrown me out on my ear. The other thing is I don't participate much. I have very few friends within the movie community. I hang out with some guys I've known forever. They're all broke and eat me out of house and home. But I stay home mostly and I don't go to the parties. Maybe that preserves me.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Crazy, Real, Party

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

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• When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters.

  Carson Grant

  Brother, Fall, Character

  "Carson Grant directs Romeo and Juliet" by Denise Kaminsky, Associated Content, September 2007.

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• Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's workings; and, spite of all your skill, I read to the depths." This is a truth more or less powerful, as one is more or less gifted by the good God.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Art, Powerful, Eye

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• The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Courage, Hero, World

  Tess Gerritsen, Julie Miller, Janie Crouch (2016). “Secrets Uncovered: A Romantic Suspense Collection: Never Say Die\Kansas City Cover-Up\Infiltration”, p.180, Harlequin

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• Acting is a mysterious process.

  Bertie Carvel

  Mysterious, Process

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• One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.

  Meryl Streep

  Mean, Keys, Shoes

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

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• I caught the acting bug from my dad.

  Finn Wittrock

  Dad, Bugs, Caught

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

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• For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Teaching, Sight, Focus

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• You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

  Jean-Marc Vallee

  Quality, Emotion, Judgment

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• In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. When actors are not talking, just acting out, it looks kind of weird. But in animation, mime is constant, and you accept it.

  Signe Baumane

  Talking, Perfect, Actors

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• I have an appreciation for what some people would call "bad acting," but which I think can be much more real than the overly emotive, technical and supposedly "realistic" acting that is so prevalent in mainstream cinema.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Appreciation, Real, Thinking

  "Reading photographs may be like reading language, but only up to a point". Interview with Bucky Miller, believermagblog.wordpress.com. June 6, 2014.

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• I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

  Amy Poehler

  Thinking, Talking, Listening

  "How Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, David Wain and Michael Showalter Conducted the Most Perfect Junket Interview Ever". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.thewrap.com. July 16, 2014.

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• I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.

  Christian McKay

  School, Boys, Eight

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