Acting Quotes - Page 22

• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  Wallace Shawn

  New York, Writing, Play

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, www.reuters.com. February 1, 2011.

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• I go to an acting class every Sunday.

  Paz de la Huerta

  Sunday, Class, Acting Classes

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• I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.

  Alec Baldwin

  Thinking, Talent

  "Why Me?" by Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. September 8, 2008.

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• In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

  Alec Baldwin

  Different, Theater, Minutes

  "New Again: Alec Baldwin". Interview with Charles Kaiser, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 19, 2012.

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• My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

  Laura Carmichael

  Teacher, People, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said, 'Inconsiderate? Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.' It's a collective slap to a million faces at the same time.

  Debra Winger

  Faces, Schedules, Reason

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

  Dylan McDermott

  Writing, Roles, Actors

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• In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldnt call on me.

  Peggy Lipton

  Teacher, Class, Praying

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• Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

  Gemma Chan

  Cameras, Different, Pretty Picture

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• Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Comedy, Physical Comedy, Hard

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• I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Jobs, Finding Yourself, Bizarre

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• I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Friday, Monday, Real

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• When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Skills, Use, Shooting

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• I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn't want to be a lawyer. I just wanted to go straight to being a justice.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Kids, Justice, Want

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• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  Felicity Kendal

  Player, Land, Careers

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• Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

  Penelope Wilton

  People, Shy, Shows

  "Unspoken worlds" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• In 22 years of acting, I've only done two movies where I, personally, kill people. The Coens called me the Spanish Ballerina on (the No Country For Old Men) set, because every time I had the gun, when they called cut, I'd give it back and say, 'Take this s**t out of my hands!' There were laughing, like they couldn't believe I was supposed to be the villain.

  Javier Bardem

  Country, Believe, Cutting

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• The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

  Sharlto Copley

  World, Humbling Experiences, Humbling

  "District 9 star Sharlto Copley". Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. August 13, 2009.

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• When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.

  Albert Brooks

  Couple, Class, Insecurity

  "Auteur Albert Brooks Feels the "Drive". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. September 14, 2011.

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• When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.

  Albert Brooks

  School, Kids, Careers

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• I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I cant explain it.

  Luise Rainer

  Sensitive, Cant

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• Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

  Jeremy Davies

  School, Film, Used

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

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• My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.

  Emilia Fox

  Parent, Advise, Pressured

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• I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

  Ellen Wong

  Creative, Roles, Want

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• A great while ago the world begun,
  With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;
  But that's all one, our play is done,
  And we'll strive to please you every day.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Philosophical, Rain

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [401]

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