Acting Quotes - Page 25

• In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.

  Matthew Rhys

  Games, Twenties, Window

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• I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.

  Matthew Rhys

  Numbers, Interesting, Fulfilling

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• Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.

  Brian J. White

  Views, People, Quality

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• Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.

  Brian J. White

  Football, People, Training

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• I had an amazing experience doing 'Skins.' It was the first acting I'd ever done in my entire life, so I had to learn on set for those two years. I had to keep my head screwed on and learn from the other cast.

  Mitch Hewer

  Years, Two, Skins

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• I really like acting in English.

  Romain Duris

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• I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.

  Trevor Donovan

  School, Class, Design

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• I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.

  Nathan Gamble

  Thinking, Long, Progress

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• I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.

  Charlene Tilton

  Havens, Focused

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• I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.

  Steve Valentine

  Years, Feelings, Magic

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• The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

  Riz Ahmed

  People, Trying, Tick

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• My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.

  Riz Ahmed

  Character, Reflection, Roles

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• The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

  Riz Ahmed

  People, Doubt, Film

  "Q&A: Riz Ahmed". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2010.

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• Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

  Bryan Batt

  Thinking, People, Silence

  "'Mad Men' Star Brian Batt Stands Up for Gay Actors" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. May 13, 2010.

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• I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

  Gale Harold

  Trying, Study

  "Queer as Folk's Gale Harold". Interview with Ilana Rapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2014.

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• I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

  Michael Moriarty

  Calling, Kind, Theater

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• Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.

  Kurt Angle

  Believe, Wrestling, Kind

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

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• My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

  Antonia Thomas

  Father, Musical, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

  Hill Harper

  College, Theater

  "Hill Harper Meets Challenges on Screen and in Print" by Melinda Loewenstein, www.backstage.com. August 19, 2011.

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• In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

  Hill Harper

  Teacher, Character, Class

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• In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach

  College, Class, Get Better

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• At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Careers, Two, Village

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• I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.

  Tippi Hedren

  Grateful, Careers, Use

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• Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyones going Hey! and the next theyre going Who?. You certainly dont need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.

  Jack Davenport

  Knowing, People, Needs

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• I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because its not necessarily the easiest of lives.

  Jack Davenport

  Children, Discouraged, Responsible

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