Acting Quotes - Page 36

• God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.

  T. D. Jakes

  Grace And Mercy, God's Grace, Quitting

  T. D. Jakes (2007). “T.D. Jakes Speaks to Men, 3-in-1”, p.507, Baker Books

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• Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be acting differently. Sometimes these expectations run counter what is known about children's growth. They stem from remembering oneself, but usually at a slightly older age.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Running, Children, Expectations

  Ellen Galinsky (1987). “The Six Stages of Parenthood”, Da Capo Press

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• The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.

  Julia Marlowe

  Art, Strong, Mean

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• ... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

  Julia Marlowe

  Artist, Essentials, Actors

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• ...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.

  Darlene Cates

  Sight, People, Actors

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• It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still be wrong, because of its effects on other people. I should ask, 'Will my act be one of a set of acts that will together harm other people?' The answer may be Yes. And the harm to others may be great. If this is so, I may be acting very wrongly, like the Harmless Torturers.

  Derek Parfit

  People, Together, Answers

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• When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.

  Christopher Reeve

  Father, Responsibility, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, People, Rejection

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you write a character and their dialogue, you can't help imagining how you would be acting if you were them. You kind of have to relate to all of them. It's the most personal thing I've ever done.

  Tom Ford

  Writing, Character, Would Be

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on series television is, there's not a lot of hanging-out time. You're pumping those pages out, you're doing six, seven, eight pages a day. And I like that pace.

  Joe Mantegna

  Differences, Eight, Six

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don't have to live in the world of courage that everyone else does. I like creating, it's what I do, and acting allows me to stretch all those different muscles in all kinds of ways. That's pretty cool.

  Roddy Piper

  Creating, Going Away, Doe

  "PR: 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper Makes Animation Debut in 'Green Lantern: Emerald Knights'"". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. May 5, 2011.

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• Wrestling and acting couldn't be anymore different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is implosion. One really screws up the other.

  Roddy Piper

  Wrestling, Different, Screw Ups

  "Rowdy Roddy Piper Lends his Voce to Green Lantern: Emerald Knights". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. May 5, 2011.

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• Fighting is not internal, but it can be very spiritual. Everything acting is internal. One of my problems in making the transition is pulling back, but I'm working on it.

  Roddy Piper

  Spiritual, Fighting, Transition

  "Rowdy Roddy Piper Lends his Voce to Green Lantern: Emerald Knights". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. May 5, 2011.

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• Be sure that the reason you are in the business is not to be a star, but because you love the craft of acting. If you have a real passion for it and acting is what you want to do every day, you are much more likely to be successful. If being a star is your primary goal, you may end up being very disappointed.

  Donna Mills

  Stars, Real, Passion

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• There were two things that became apparent, pretty quickly into the process. One was that the muscles didn't take as much reconditioning as I thought they would. It was more like voice acting than I thought it would be. You're using your whole body and there are things that are different, but when you are doing a character, even in the booth, nobody is watching but my face will do different things when I do different characters.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Character, Two, Voice

  Source: collider.com

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• Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.

  Harrison Ford

  Team, Done, Collaboration

  "Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth, Amber Heard, Lucas Till, and Director Robert Luketic Talk PARANOIA, Real-Life Parallels, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.

  Rose McGowan

  Directors, Lines, Nervous

  Source: collider.com

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• I never trained in any acting, other than just joking around and doing my own dinky little videos.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Video, Joking Around, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with my life, but every time I was away from acting, I just felt very incomplete and a little stir crazy.

  Alexander Koch

  Crazy, Musical, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• My life is about politics, a lot of about music, and a lot about things other than acting. I like traveling the world. But, what makes me want to stay in this business and keep doing this are movies when it's a true labor of love.

  Olivia Wilde

  World, Want, Life Is

  Source: collider.com

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• I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems to want me.

  Jonathan Frakes

  Thinking, Directors, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• The only boring part of it is finding the fact that got you from point A to point B. Most actors, if they're being honest, are not going to say that that's the most stimulating acting work they've ever done. But the dynamics of staring into the face of evil and it looking back at you, and seeing yourself in that or not, is interesting.

  Benjamin McKenzie

  Evil, Interesting, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.

  Ellar Coltrane

  Art, Emotion, Incredibles

  Source: collider.com

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• I am a professional actor and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do. They may inadvertently do it, but it's because of the script, not the acting.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Character, Doe, Actors

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'm a much better listener when I'm acting than I am as a person in real life because you learn as an actor that listening is so important. You have to really key into what the other person you're acting with is saying and how they're saying it and react in the moment to what is going on.

  Rainn Wilson

  Real, Keys, Listening

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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