Acting Quotes - Page 31

• Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius.

  Martin Sheen

  New York, School, Years

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• I wish James Dean would never have died. Then he'd be fat and acting on Dynasty or something. There wouldn't be this whiny-boy act that's so prevalent everywhere.

  Jane Leeves

  Boys, Wish, Dynasty

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

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• Saturday Night Live was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting.

  Howard Shore

  Summer, Night, Ontario

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• Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything that isn't working out perfectly every time.

  Frank Miller

  Thinking, Work Out, Culture

  "Writers, Artists Describe State of the Union". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 24, 2007.

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• Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

  Chris D'Elia

  Found, Felt

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2012.

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• If I am able to carry on modeling, I'll be very happy to, but my passion is definitely in music and acting. I would love to do what Meryl Streep is doing. Her or Judi Dench, or maybe Charlize Theron as well.

  Cara Delevingne

  Passion, Able, Very Happy

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

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• I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.

  Fede Alvarez

  Able, Aspect, Enjoy

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• To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.

  June Squibb

  New York, Add, Starting Out

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• I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.

  June Squibb

  New York, Training, Firsts

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• It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

  Oscar Wilde

  Moral, Bad Acting

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.

  Genevieve Cortese

  Adventure, Opportunity, Moments

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• The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.

  Ben Bernanke

  Europe, Financial, Economy

  "China digs its heels in as Europe crisis deepens". "The World Today" with Emily Bourke, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2012.

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• We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.

  Angeles Mastretta

  Long, Late, Liberation

  "AUTHOR INTERVIEW -- Life and Love in the Mexican Revolution / `Lovesick' author puts a passionate woman in the center of the conflict" by Alix Madrigal, www.sfgate.com. May 4, 1997.

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• I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Play, Different, Theater

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

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• I want to go to college, and I want to keep acting and singing.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  College, Singing, Want

  "Miranda Cosgrove Interview DESPICABLE ME". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.

  Jonas Armstrong

  Interest, University, Courses

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

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• I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

  Alexander Hanson

  Casts, Courses, Bits

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• From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

  Heather Dubrow

  Singing, Age, My Family

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• I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  Writing, Way, Helping

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

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• So when Jesus directs us to pray, “Thy kingdom come,” he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence. Rather, we pray for it to take over at all points in the personal, social, and political order where it is now excluded: “On earth as it is in heaven.” With this prayer we are invoking it, as in faith we are acting it, into the real world of our daily existence

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Prayer, Real

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• I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.

  Barbara Windsor

  Taken, Done, Checks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

  Elena Roger

  Singing, Age, Lessons

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting With West End Evita Elena Roger Plus News of Buckley and LuPone". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. July 28, 2006.

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• In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the plastic construction, and it is always present all the time as energy creating matter. The stories and other literary associations exist only in the mind of the spectator, the painting acting as the stimulus.

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Art, Ideas, Creating

  José Clemente Orozco (1983). “Textos de Orozco: Estudio y Apéndice”

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• I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

  Anna Popplewell

  Drama, Students, University

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• Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

  Leon Trotsky

  Men, Thinking, People

  Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.353, Haymarket Books

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