Acting Quotes - Page 32

• I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

  Olivia Holt

  Careers, People, Laughing

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

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• I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.

  Lynne Reid Banks

  Life Changing, Female, News

  "TV news in the 50s was more thrilling than The Hour" by Lynne Reid Banks, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2011.

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• In professional wrestling, I think that they want you to be bigger than life. It's almost like an over-acting type thing - whereas on the big screen, you're 35 feet and they've got a close-up of you to put it on the screen in the movie house. At 35 feet, it's more subtlety than the overboard drama that we do in pro wrestling.

  Kevin Nash

  Drama, Wrestling, Thinking

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 26, 2004.

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• I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.

  Mark Strickson

  Thinking, Skills, People

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• I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.

  Deborah Ann Woll

  Hard Work, Goal, Focus

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

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• Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don't do it for the sake of fun. Actors such as Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah are great examples; they are surviving only because they have read well.

  Boman Irani

  Art, Fun, Example

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• Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as 'the nature of things.' The very efficacy of opinion manipulation rests on the fact that we do not know we are being manipulated. The most insidious forms of oppression are those that so insinuate themselves into our communication universe and the recesses of our minds that we do not even realize they are acting upon us.

  Michael Parenti

  Communication, Political, Mind

  Michael Parenti (2011). “The Culture Struggle”, p.130, Seven Stories Press

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• Global warming is already acting upon us with an accelerated feedback and compounded effect that may be irreversible! We do not have eons or centuries or many decades. Most of us alive today may not even have the luxury of saying 'Après moi, le déluge' because we will be around to experience it ourselves. And if you think it will be 'interesting' or 'exciting,' ask the tsunami survivors if that's how they felt. This time the plutocratic drive to 'accumulate, accumulate, accumulate' may take all of us down, once and forever.

  Michael Parenti

  Thinking, Luxury, Interesting

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• Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.

  Lynn Shelton

  Class, Voice, Painting

  "Filmmaker Lynn Shelton: ‘There’s This Real Deliciousness To Being Able To Do Exactly What You Want To Do’" by Lori Fradkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 05, 2013.

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• I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

  Lynn Shelton

  Directors, Actors, Way

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• Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

  Harvey Martin

  Persons, Supposed To Be

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• I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

  Ruth Wilson

  Voice, Dancing, Parent

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

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• I fell completely in love with acting. I guess I was bitten.

  Jennifer Grant

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

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• In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.

  Tara Strong

  Video, Realistic

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

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• Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

  Peter Ustinov

  Television, Captains, Ships

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• I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the scientifically unsound notions of the young-Earth creationists and other anti-evolutionists ... They are so far off the scale that their scientific claims need not be taken seriously. Their distortions and misrepresentations of the scientific facts are not consistent with their self-righteous claims of acting to protect all that is good and moral.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Taken, Self, Scary

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• A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of the characters. A screenplay is 120 pages, and it's all dialogue and action. The pacing of films is different, the structure is often different, and the internal lives of the characters must come across through the acting. Movies are just a different experience than reading - so it just depends on what an individual prefers.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Reading, Character

  "Exclusive: Our chat with Nicholas Sparks & exclusive movie poster debut". Interview with Tyler Kurbat, www.sheknows.com. October 24, 2012.

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• I don't get a rush from anything. I did music as hard as I could. Acting for me at least, is a far more restrained performance than music. It requires a lot of skill and discipline. I'm not any good at it but I enjoy trying to be good at it.

  Henry Rollins

  Skills, Discipline, Trying

  Source: www.commdiginews.com

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• Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Children, Adults, Comic

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that.

  Seth Green

  First Love, Cameras, Television

  "Interview: Seth Green talks ‘Dads’ controversy". Interview with Liane Bonin Starr, uproxx.com. September 17, 2013.

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• In the retail business, many people are too consumed with the bottom line. How much am I going to be selling? Am I going to be able to do all the things I need to get done? Instead, if they are at peace and feeling good about themselves - if they are treating customers with love and acting as statesmen and stateswomen and people who are connected to God in a spiritual sense - then every day for them is a real joy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Real, People

  New Age Retailer Interview, www.drwaynedyer.com. November 2005.

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• We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

  Maya Angelou

  Growing Up, Years, Kind

  Source: blues.gr

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• Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting.

  Will Smith

  Television, Stage, Walks

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• The human being that I strive to be is a great human being, like a loving human being, but as an actor, you take on roles that are not you and that's the fun part for me as far as acting goes. You really get to learn about other human beings and not judge.

  Common

  Fun, Judging, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• I really think of it - acting and writing and producing, whatever - as shipping. You gotta ship. Put the widget together in the easiest, quickest way possible and ship the product.

  Rob Corddry

  Writing, Thinking, Together

  "Rob Corddry on Pain & Gain, Being from Boston, and Absurdity". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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