Acting Quotes - Page 29

• You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

  David Mamet

  Stories, Rely

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

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• Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.

  Kim Alexis

  Two, People, Romance

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• Acting is the loneliest profession I know.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Profession, Knows

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• When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that weve taken on a role or were acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.

  Judith Butler

  Taken, Mean, Role Playing

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• The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.

  Herbert Spencer

  Skills, Political, Humanity

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• You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art at their two extremes - say Pure Mathematics and Acting. Science as a rule deals with things, Art with man's thought and emotion about things.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Art, Men, Two

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• In order to be able to work with somebody in acting, you've first got to think that person's a good actor before you can enjoy working with them. I guess that goes with the trust.

  Tim DeKay

  Thinking, Order, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Voicing acting is usually fun. I'm very curious about that world. I'm a fan of documentaries, as well, and the voice kind of makes it right. Mostly for me, though, it's all about the acting -you don't have to get hair and makeup and the whole bit. You just can have fun with the acting.

  Marg Helgenberger

  Fun, Makeup, Hair

  Source: movieweb.com

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• If that day comes when I'm done with the acting and singing, I'll just pack it in and go home.

  Mandy Moore

  Home, Singing, Done

  Source: movieweb.com

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• My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about this, I tend to put it all down as habit or it's just acting.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Wife, Weak Spots, Cookies

  "Anthony Hopkins Talks Fracture". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. April 17, 2007.

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• I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.

  Robert Carlyle

  Band, Moments, Minutes

  "Robert Carlyle on California Solo, American vs. British TV, and the appeal of fairy tales". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

  Zac Efron

  Fame

  "Zac Efron and Corbin Bleu Dish on High School Musical 3: Senior Year". movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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• I was working more on a primal, instinctive level. And it just seemed to suit me; it seemed to suit my concentration span, it seemed to suit my personal style of performance, and I have fallen in love with film acting.

  Ron Perlman

  Style, Suits, Levels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I went to school to play sports, but I got involved in theatre in college kind of by mistake. I ended up taking an acting class almost just to get rid of an arts requirement, but I wound up in this wonderful acting class with this teacher named Alma Becker who really saved my life. I was just kind of this knucklehead kid from DC and I was in and out of trouble all of the time. I took a theatre class and she really discovered something in me and I absolutely fell in love with it.

  Jon Bernthal

  Sports, Teacher, Art

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bernthal Talks WALKING DEAD Season Premiere, Theatre Background & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 16, 2011.

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• I think everyone's journey through this crazy, weird, wild, wonderful area of work named acting is really their own. And if you're going for something that isn't yours, you're wasting time. You could be focused on your own work instead of thinking about somebody else.

  Laura Linney

  Crazy, Journey, Thinking

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• The weird thing about serious acting is I've always done impressions of people, all my life, and I did the thing called a balloon debate. The idea is there's a hot air balloon traveling across the Atlantic and it's going down and you have to give a speech as to why you should stay in the balloon. Six people are going to be chucked out and you want to stay.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Ideas, Air, People

  JustJared.com interview, www.justjared.com. December 21, 2011.

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• Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can sense the reaction from the audience and quickly move on.

  Betty White

  Moving, Differences, Actors

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• The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it's just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don't really need to be known anymore than I am. The slight sliver of fame I do have is hard to deal with. If I was actually well-known - I don't even know what to say to people who are at my show when I walk into the venue, much less having waitresses in diners asking for my autograph.

  Doug Stanhope

  People, Ruins, Hollywood

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Maybe if I completely shaved my head and get the frost out of my moustache, maybe I could get one of those serious acting jobs.

  Laila Ali

  Jobs, Frost, Serious

  "Hulk Hogan and Laila Ali Give Us the Goods on American Gladiators". movieweb.com. December 31, 2007.

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• As a kid, I was a huge fan of movies and acting. My mom was in the sort of community theater, and I always hung around down there, and I was a massive fan of everything I'm kind of involved in now. But fairly ordinary and cheeky.

  Simon Pegg

  Mom, Kids, Community

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• Acting is fun; it's easier than writing, and if you get on a [TV] show, it draws people to your stand-up. That's ultimately what I'd like to do.

  Hannibal Buress

  Fun, Writing, Tv Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was probably 34 when I got my first on-camera acting job, and it was through a friend of mine, who was working as a writer on the show, and I've never been more frightened in my life.

  Kurt Fuller

  Jobs, Cameras, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was in college, I thought I was going to be a lawyer, I met this girl named Laura who was the most beautiful girl I had ever known, and she was taking an acting class, so I decided to take the same acting class. And I was a terrible actor in college.

  Kurt Fuller

  Beautiful, Girl, College

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the [music] business as I can. I don't want to just sit back and have other people do the hard work for me. I try to be involved in every process of my career as possible. I run my own social media, record, and try to vocal produce myself as much as possible, write my own songs, style myself, and learn the business side. If I didn't do acting or music, I was going to school for business. God has put me on this path and I can honestly say I wake up every day doing what I love.

  Asher Monroe

  Running, Song, School

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out.

  Alicia Keys

  Dream, Writing, Helping Others

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