Acting Quotes - Page 38

• If I'm directing actors, I learn about acting that way. If I'm acting, I learn about directing that way. Producing is just something that's come about because there's projects I find interesting that I would like to help get done.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Interesting, Actors, Done

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you're acting, you're subjective; when you're a director, you're more objective.You're kind of watching from the outside and helping others, and therefore I learn my mistakes through others, and also my assets through others.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Mistake, Helping Others, Directors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love challenging myself, doing different things and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before. That's what I love about acting, and that's what I love about film.

  Taylor Lautner

  Challenges, Different, Gone

  "Taylor Lautner Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 2; Watch the 20 Minute Press Conference or Read the Transcript". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 2, 2012.

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• My passion is acting, and has always been. It's what brought me to this point of being able to diversify and do other things, and I hope it's something I'll continue to have a passion for.

  Zachary Quinto

  Passion, Able, My Passion

  Source: collider.com

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• It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

  KRS-One

  Race, Hypocrisy, Hip Hop

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• My education was a huge influence. I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods, and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.

  Roberto Aguire

  Thinking, Giving, People

  "Interview: Roberto Aguire Talks Boulevard (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. August 4, 2015.

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• I'd love to continue to produce movies. My number one passion is acting, but I also think there's something so special in being able to support a script and an idea, and take it all the way through to fruition. I think that process is so rewarding.

  Roberto Aguire

  Passion, Thinking, Ideas

  "Interview: Roberto Aguire Talks Boulevard (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. August 4, 2015.

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• I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which everybody says you shouldn't do. It makes you feel like you're not acting, as soon as you have someone who's providing stuff to react to.

  Robert Pattinson

  Kids, Animal, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• To be supportive of myself, I have to go with what I want to do. I started acting and I was so mesmerized.

  Agyness Deyn

  Supportive, Want, Mesmerized

  "Agyness Deyn Talks PUSHER, the Intense Shoot, and the Transition from Modeling to Acting". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 26, 2012.

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• For me, making a lot of dramas on one side it's a different sort of challenge, and on the other, it's not a challenge at all, meaning that my goal is to try and bring the realism and acting you might find in a straight drama with the intentions and conflict, where it doesn't feel tongue-in-cheek, but rather committed and real.

  James Mangold

  Drama, Real, Goal

  Source: collider.com

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• Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.

  Julie Delpy

  Writing, Editing, Done

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The only reason why you should do a film is because it creatively carbonates you and gets you going. If you're doing it for any other reason, you've lost sight of why you're acting, in the first place.

  Graham Phillips

  Sight, Firsts, Reason Why

  Source: collider.com

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• I want to stay with dancing, because that's what I want to do the rest of my life. I want to be in film and be acting and maybe even modeling a little bit.

  Maddie Ziegler

  Dancing, Want, Littles

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills.

  Julianne Hough

  Skills, Passionate, Want

  "Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta Talk ROCK OF AGES, the Cut Lap Dance Scene with Tom Cruise, and Recording Their Albums". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Faith is knowing who God is and acting accordingly... God fights when we move.

  Steven Furtick

  Moving, Fighting, Knowing

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• Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.

  Hetty King

  Memories, People, Actors

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• The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.

  Pablo Picasso

  Intelligent, Plot, Movement

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• Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.

  Steven Pressfield

  Hero, Artist, Support

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• If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.

  Marlon Brando

  Jobs, Successful, Wish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Kindness, People, Hypocrisy

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• I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;
  Speak and look back, and pry on every side,
  Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw,
  Intending deep suspicion.

  William Shakespeare

  Looks, Sides, Speak

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedy of King Richard III”, p.260, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Speak, Clown

  1600-1 Hamlet to the players. Hamlet, act 3, sc.2, l.38-9.

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• The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

  Mason Cooley

  Actors, Pleasure, Theater

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• I have forgiven all the old actors for dying.
  A new one comes on with the same lines,
  like large white growths, in his mouth.
  The dancers come on from the wings,
  perfectly mated.

  Anne Sexton

  Wings, White, Dancer

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

  Ian Mckellen

  Careers, Cameras, Suits

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