Acting Quotes - Page 24

• The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach acting from a podium.

  Rex Harrison

  Thinking, Important, Teach

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

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• I believe acting is very physical, and when you have to fight or do those kinds of things, it takes a lot of respect not to allow yourself to go off and hurt yourself or someone else.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Hurt, Believe, Fighting

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• I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

  Gene Wilder

  Fantasy, Kind, Realistic

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• Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.

  Gene Wilder

  Hard Work, Writing, Thinking

  "Wilder Asks, 'What Is This Thing Called Love?'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. March 30, 2010.

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• I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, Whats the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting? It didnt make sense to me anymore. Its not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

  Taylor Schilling

  Teacher, School, Differences

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• I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is.

  Irene Dunne

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

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• Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the directors eyes, you get it right does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.

  Mara Wilson

  Fun, Real, Eye

  "Former Child Star Mara Wilson: Why I Quit Acting". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.

  Mara Wilson

  People, Appreciate, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In acting, you are fulfilled if you give justice to your role... if you are able to do a credible performance and touch the audience. Same with directing. If you are able to draw out the best from your actors, then you fulfill your job as a director.

  Timothy Hutton

  Jobs, Giving, Justice

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• I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

  Nat Wolff

  Dad, Live In The Moment, Musician

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

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• There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

  Laurence Fox

  Jobs, Two, Actors

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• There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.

  Laurence Fox

  Knowing, Rude, Guilty

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• Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

  Laurence Fox

  Jobs, Great Job, Things To Do

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• If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besides that Twilight thing?'

  Robert Pattinson

  Hate, Twilight, Ideas

  "Robert Pattinson interview: Reality bites". Interview With Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Cosmopolis is the movie of my life. I didn't consider myself an actor before, even if I had 10 years of acting behind me. I always felt like a fraud, and inappropriate. I doubt a lot. David Cronenberg gave me confidence in myself. He changed my way of acting and thinking in this industry.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Years, Doubt

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• I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that Im so completely in the back seat.

  Natascha McElhone

  Thinking, People, Actresses

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• I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

  Sam Rockwell

  Fuel, Want, Melancholy

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

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• Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Way, Film

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

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• For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?

  Julia Garner

  Senior, Home, School

  "SXSW FUTURES | Indie World is Smitten with High School Senior and ‘Electrick Children’ Star Julia Garner". Interview with Bryce J. Renninger, www.indiewire.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I like to do stuff for my brothers and sisters to appreciate because they look up to me, and for other kids around the world who want to get into acting or who just want to have somebody to look up to.

  Kyla Pratt

  Brother, Kids, Appreciate

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• I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

  Rupert Graves

  School, Kids, Insecurity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

  Jesse L. Martin

  Students, Impossible, Study

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• I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.

  Vinnie Jones

  Real, Drama, Independent

  "Vinnie Jones Interviewed - THE CONDEMNED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 22, 2007.

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• I always want to try new things, and 'Mean Machine' has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on acting and would love to play all sorts of roles - you'll see that there's more strings to my bow!

  Vinnie Jones

  Mean, Play, Trying

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• Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

  Charles Grodin

  Thinking, Cameras, Sense Of Humor

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