Acting Quotes - Page 27

• I don't like acting things; I like feeling things.

  Dougray Scott

  Feelings

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• I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin.

  Rupert Penry-Jones

  Years, Campaigns, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Jobs, Flesh, Way

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• I told everyone that actings for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.

  Judi Shekoni

  Giving, Trying, Lasts

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• I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and hes incredibly charismatic, even when hes not acting. Hes an incredibly hard worker, and he has a very specific system that he does with his work.

  Jonathan Jackson

  Hard Work, Thinking, Doe

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• I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

  Colleen Haskell

  Jobs, Why Not, Great Job

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• Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

  Julian Morris

  Live Life, Ties, Humanity

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

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• I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.

  Vinessa Shaw

  Children, Fun, Done

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• There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

  Justin Kirk

  Long, People, Missing

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• You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Writing, Eggs, Firsts

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• I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary school, and I found it quite difficult, especially when I'd never stepped into a classroom with boys. So I started looking out in the community for a social outlet. I started getting involved in student films and community theater. Acting began as a hobby.

  Holland Roden

  School, Boys, Community

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• I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Roles, Recurring

  "‘Jersey Shore’ Star Vinny Guadagnino’s Shakespearean Secret" by Jo Piazza, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Soccer is my first love. Ive been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void.

  Kyle Schmid

  Soccer, First Love, Years

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• I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

  Laurie Metcalf

  Theater, Practicals, Majors

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• Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. Thats why they go into acting!

  Penny Marshall

  Stars, Insecure, Movie Star

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• No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.

  Ken Stott

  Dark, Light, Play

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• For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

  Ken Stott

  Risk, Trying, Lines

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• Death Of A Salesman is a great acting job.

  Ken Stott

  Jobs, Salesman

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• I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become firm in any way that I needed, and he just let me try things and to explore what I can do with my acting. So that was very helpful.

  Willow Shields

  Trying, Here And There, Way

  "Comic-Con 2012: 'Hunger Games' Star Willow Shields on Playing Jennifer Lawrence's Sister". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa.

  Katie Chang

  Writing, Vices, Use

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• On some level acting is the art of pretend and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

  Stephen Lang

  Art, Imagination, Levels

  "Daddy’s Home! Stephen Lang On Playing Mary Shannon’s Long Gone Father On In Plain Sight!". Interview with Sheldon Wiebe, eclipsemagazine.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.

  Stephen Lang

  Writing, Responsibility, Fantastic

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

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• I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.

  Stephen Lang

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job.

  Lennie James

  Jobs, Thinking, Talking

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

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• I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.

  Ali MacGraw

  Real, Years, Technique

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