Acting Quotes - Page 40

• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  College, Thinking, Important

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• I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so its really confusing.

  Yara

  Confusing, Want, Historian

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• Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.

  Yara

  Life Experience, My Family, Made

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• A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mistake, Fall, Mean

  "The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick". Book by Lawrence Sutin, 1995.

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• The king-becoming graces,
  As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,
  Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
  Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
  I have no relish of them, but abound
  In the division of each several crime,
  Acting in many ways.

  William Shakespeare

  Perseverance, Kings, Justice

  William Shakespeare (2002). “Macbeth”, p.186, Barron's Educational Series

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• Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Land, Promise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

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• The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.

  Gerald Edelman

  Memories, Mean, Diversity

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• It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Casts

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• My dad always said he wanted to be remembered for his body of work, and he's made more than 75 pictures, some good, some bad, and they will be his legacy to the world of acting.

  Charlton Heston

  Dad, Legacy, World

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• There is life after acting.

  Suzanne Crough

  Life

  "Suzanne Crough, of the 'Partridge Family,' dies at 52", www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2015.

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• Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around and into a church and acting like KGB agents.

  Mathew Staver

  Religious, Freedom, Government

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• I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.'

  Daniel Logan

  Stars, War, Gone Away

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

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• Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It is now a global scourge. And you have the ascendancy of ISIL. The combination of those two groups -- their appeal to the lone wolfs and we see them acting in Belgium and in France and in Canada and the United States so the threat factors and the nature of the threats are far more complicated and far more serious today than on September 12, 2001.

  Tom Ridge

  Nature, Two, Today

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• I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

  Vivien Leigh

  Thinking, Giving, Important

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• What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in acting in union with God himself, who created and ultimately controls all other forces.

  Dallas Willard

  Mean, Unions, Force

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• Strategy is a system of makeshifts. Is is more than a science. It is bringing knowledge to bear on practical life, the further elaboration of an original guiding idea under constantly changing circumstances. It is the art of acting under the pressure of the most demanding conditions...That is why general principles, rules derived from them, and systems based on these rules cannot possibly have any value for strategy.

  Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

  Life, Art, Science

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• I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L.A.

  Madisen Beaty

  Wise, Hands, Denver

  "Five Questions with The Pregnancy Pact's Madisen Beaty". Interview with Colleen Moody, www.seventeen.com. January 11, 2010.

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• Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Imagination, Imperfection, Actors

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.93, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

  Richard McCabe

  Vices, Different, Film

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• With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but youve got a lot of downtime as well.

  Elize du Toit

  Months, Downtime, Might

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• I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.

  Ethan Hawke

  Years, People, Actors

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 12, 2012.

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• Sometimes you do have to scare people a little bit: if someone is not acting in the best interest of the show, then maybe you need to scream and yell a little bit, or let them know you're in charge.

  Steven Levitan

  People, Scare, Needs

  Source: deadline.com

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• Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Long, Listening, Way

  "OSCARS Q&A: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with David Mermelstein, deadline.com. December 30, 2012.

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• I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. I found it incredibly difficult, doing that kind of sales work. I would have thought I'd be good at it, but I wasn't. It's so easy in acting. Everything falls into place when they write that you're a salesman. People just say yes, and then it's great.

  Greg Kinnear

  Fall, Writing, College

  "Greg Kinnear Talks THIN ICE, Guest Starring on MODERN FAMILY, and WRITERS with Jennifer Connelly". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 17, 2012.

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• Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.

  John Lithgow

  Stars, Laughter, Teenager

  Source: www.pbs.org

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