Acting Quotes - Page 26

• I definitely want to continue acting and performing.

  Sabrina Bryan

  Want, Performing, Acting And Performing

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• The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.

  Andy Serkis

  Moving, Healthy, Occupation

  "Andy Serkis: From Gollum to Ian Dury". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

  Andy Serkis

  Technology, Action, Distinction

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• As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Play, Long

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• I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

  Andy Serkis

  Giving, Canvas, Bigger

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• My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.

  Andy Serkis

  Capture, Performances, Ifs

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• Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.

  Andy Serkis

  Pressure, God Knows, Cookers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, "God, they don't paint behind the sets." It's a bit of a shame, really - "Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood." I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.

  Andy Serkis

  Wall, Real, Kids

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. January 27, 2003.

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• My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.

  Andy Serkis

  Jobs, Character, Hands

  "Q&A: King of Mo-Cap Andy Serkis on Digital Acting and Gollum’s Oscar Diss". Interview with Steve Silberman, www.wired.com. September 14, 2007.

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• I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.

  Andy Serkis

  Eye, Watches, Tools

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• At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching and enabling other actors do their thing in our studio is hugely rewarding. I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

  Andy Serkis

  Thinking, Years, Want

  "Andy Serkis plays dual role in "Hobbit" - Gollum and director". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. December 11, 2012.

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• They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

  Ed Asner

  Law, Watches, Actors

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• Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

  Ed Asner

  College, Play, Might

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• I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.

  Callie Thorne

  New York, College, Groups

  "Bridging Tv & Theatre: Callie Thorne & Necessary Roughness". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. September 14, 2011.

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• Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

  Ernie Hudson

  Committed, Has Beens

  "Ernie Hudson talks Oz and losing out on the Ghostbusters cartoon". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. June 13, 2012.

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• I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked One Life to Live.

  Tika Sumpter

  Passion, Boss, One Day

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• There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.

  Kelly Reilly

  Self, Shallow, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?

  Sam Lake

  Art, Games, Elements

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• When you live your life acting upon your deepest intuitions, no decision you ever make in life will be feared or a risk.

  Keshia Chante

  Decision, Live Your Life, Risk

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• In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.

  Eugen Drewermann

  Air, Space, Judging

  "A Violent God-Image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann". Book by Matthias Beier, 2004.

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• Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

  Subhash Kak

  Animal, Men, Telling The Truth

  "The Prajna-sutras: Aphorisms of Intuition". Book by Subhash Kak, 2007.

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• Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

  Josh Lieb

  Beach, Real, Coffee

  Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.157, Penguin

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• A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Block, Majority, Purpose

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• The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice can't persuade the town's-people into a dislike of their performance, they'll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters.

  Charlotte Charke

  Character, Men, Envy

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• I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to the majority of the population in some way. Sometimes it's their looks, other times their perceived sex appeal (often in obvious defiance of their looks), and other times it is their real or imagined talent for acting, writing, painting or banging on the drums. And because people are so susceptible to flattery, there exists an entire industry made up of scam artists whose sole goal is to fleece the flatterable.

  Fay Faron

  Sex, Real, Believe

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