Acting Quotes - Page 8

• Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Teacher, Play, Study

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

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• I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

  Bette Davis

  Regret, Apology, Enemy

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

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• A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

  Marianne Williamson

  Motivational, Levels, Moral

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• A lot of what acting is paying attention.

  Nancy Reagan

  Theatre, Attention, Pay Attention

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• The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Aquariums, Theatre, Essentials

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• It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

  Steve Buscemi

  Senior, School, Years

  "New Again: Steve Buscemi". Interview with Brooke Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2017.

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• But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

  John Cleese

  Fake People, Very Good, Competence

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• An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

  Francois Truffaut

  Dog, Falling In Love, Lying

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• The work will stand, no matter what.

  Meryl Streep

  Matter, No Matter What

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• Comedy is acting out optimism.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Philosophy, Memorable

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

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• With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

  Thayer David

  Birthday, Years, Twenties

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• I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Motivational, Essence

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

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• Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Mean, Men

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• For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Funny, Success, Art

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• Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Destiny, Play, Excellence

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

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• It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

  James Coburn

  Jobs, Desire, Lessons

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

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• Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

  Dean Koontz

  Motivation, Character, Thinking

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1053, Bantam

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• By understanding how all things arise together, you shift from viewing yourself as acting upon and realizing all things, to a new vision of seeing all things coming forth and realizing you.

  Reb Anderson

  Understanding, Vision, Together

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• The best actors do not let the wheels show.

  Milan Kundera

  Funny, Humorous, Actors

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• The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

  W. H. Auden

  Gentleman, Actors, Theater

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• A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

  Robert Redford

  Attention, Pay Attention

  "Hollywood's All-Time Greatest Stars : A Quiz Book" by Andrew J. Rausch, (p. 216), 2003.

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• Acting in "Star Wars," I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.

  Mark Hamill

  Stars, War, Fruit Salad

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

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• The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

  Stella Adler

  Mean, People, Greek

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• When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

  Stella Adler

  Important, World, Stage

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.22, Hal Leonard Corporation

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