Acting Quotes - Page 28

• Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

  Sara Rue

  Unemployed, Difficult, Honestly

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

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• I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.

  Christine Lakin

  Kids, Ucla, Class

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• I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.

  Tammy Blanchard

  Kids, My Time

  "Tammy Blanchard: 'Not uptight about anything'". Interview with Mark Kennedy, www.deseretnews.com. July 12, 2012.

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• I never really got on my own case about my own acting. I know a lot of other people have, and probably very justifiably. But I don't worry about stuff like that too much.

  Troy Donahue

  People, Worry, Stuff

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• I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor.' And she said, 'Maybe not that.'

  Octavia Spencer

  Mom, Dream, Actors

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

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• I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.

  Thomas Ian Nicholas

  Mom, Jobs, Independent

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• Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and its a very strange one.

  Philip Glenister

  Jobs, The End Of The Day, Strange

  "Philip Glenister: My family values". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.

  Harry Lloyd

  Children, Mirrors, Stories

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• If Im honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason Im still doing it, and if Im still doing it in ten years time, Im sure Ill find something else.

  Harry Lloyd

  Years, Honest, Reason

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• My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.

  John Bradley-West

  Drama, School, Long

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• I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.

  Michael Learned

  Actresses

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• Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.

  Tyne Daly

  Thinking, Parent, Important

  "Love and All That Comes With It". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. May 23, 2014.

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• My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

  Jessica Raine

  Goes On, Firsts, Costumes

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

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• That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.

  Ryan Guzman

  Baseball, Player, Thinking

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

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• The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

  Stewart Brand

  Thinking, Long, Understanding

  Stewart Brand (1999). “The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility”, p.12, Basic Books

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• Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.

  Aristotle

  Passion, Men, Self

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Opposites, Quality

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

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• Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

  Aristotle

  Vices, Doe, Able

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

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• I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

  Rupert Graves

  Careers, Concrete

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

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• The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with acting when you're in the groove, and you and what you're trying to do are seamlessly one. That happens sometimes, and I'm really happy it can happen to me.

  Rupert Graves

  Trying, Sometimes, Moments

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

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• Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like Im sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But its not supposed to be that way.

  Carole Bouquet

  Mother, Jobs, Aunt

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• I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

  Nick Frost

  School, Thinking, Way

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. September 2005.

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• I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.

  Nick Frost

  Sitting, Tough, Easy

  Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2009.

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• Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.

  Ellen Barkin

  Lakes, Swans, Hands

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• To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Opposites, Realization, World

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