Acting Quotes - Page 19

• One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

  Allison Janney

  Eye, Listening, Actors

  "MINIONS: Allison Janney and Jon Hamm Talk Animation, Their Characters, and More". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. July 9, 2015.

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• I never stop. I don't want to stop acting because I'm afraid it'll all end, so I never say no.

  Allison Janney

  Want, Ends

  "Jon Hamm, Allison Janney Interview, The Minions Movie". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.

  Dito Montiel

  Fans, Actors, Way

  "Interview: Dito Montiel Talks Boulevard (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. July 10, 2015.

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• We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.

  Barack Obama

  Use, Conflict, Justified

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• The greatest acting really is spoken without words, or at least I like to think that.

  Dash Mihok

  Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, Profession

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

  Keanu Reeves

  Creating, Joy, Pieces

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you're working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you're wearing or where you are.

  Steven Spielberg

  Party, Thinking, Skills

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• I knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen Deacons-Brock) at N.C Central University assigned me to perform a one woman show for my final project and it was then, along with her encouragement, that it was time for me to move to NY in pursuit of a professional acting career.

  April Parker Jones

  Encouragement, Moving, College

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Theater will always be my first love. The time and dedication that goes into the rehearsal process with the cast and crew is something that TV/Movie acting does not offer.

  April Parker Jones

  First Love, Dedication, Doe

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Character, Thinking, Roles

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics.

  Pete Seeger

  Sports, Art, Believe

  Source: nysmusic.com

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• If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

  Morgan Freeman

  Causes, Talent, Clue

  "Morgan Freeman Talks ISLAND OF LEMURS: MADAGASCAR, His Narration Process, Science, LIFE ITSELF, and More". collider.com. April 1, 2014.

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• Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

  Sophia Bush

  Passion, School, Doctors

  Source: z15.invisionfree.com

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• I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be an acting drill for me. I just find it to be something very real that comes from a very gut-driven, honest place.

  Christina Aguilera

  Real, Honest, Driven

  "Christina Aguilera Interview, Burlesque". www.moviesonline.ca. August 22, 2018.

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• What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.

  Edward Norton

  Interesting, Different, Gears

  Interview with Nora Ephron, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 2000.

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• My general view is that best actor best suited to role should get the job. Obviously when it comes to colour and issues of ethnicity the choice is clear. But I do not believe you have to be transgender or have undergone sex reassignment surgery to be able play a character who has.Acting is acting after all.

  Stephen Fry

  Jobs, Sex, Believe

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• I'm looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn't want to do that on a regular basis.

  Zachary Levi

  Character, Careers, Branches

  "5 Questions with Alexis Bledel & Zachary Levi". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. April 18, 2013.

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• There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not perfect. All of the motives a human being may have, which are mixed, that's the novelists' materials. That's where they have to go. And a lot of that just isn't pretty. We like to think of ourselves as really, really good people. But look in the mirror. Really look. Look at your own mixed motives. And then multiply that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Mirrors, People

  "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.

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• I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Depressing, Jobs, Creativity

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV, How the Idea Came about, His Collaborative Company, Inspiring People to Contribute, and Plans for Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 15, 2014.

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• I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.

  Billy Crystal

  Art, Eye, College

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.

  Susan Mitchell

  Culture, Dublin, Talent

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• Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because an ancestor or two happened to arrive here on the Mayflower. You don't even have to be a registered Republican.

  Lisa Birnbach

  School, Two, Lucky

  Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing

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• In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.

  Kirby Page

  War, Army, Judging

  Kirby Page (1976). “Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology”, Dissertations-G

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• Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests.

  Paul A. Baran

  Government, Divergent, Groups

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.93, NYU Press

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