Bad Acting Quotes

• That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

  Viola Davis

  Acting, Actors, Acting Out

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Art, Acting, Facts

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• Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.

  Edie McClurg

  Opportunity, Acting, Way

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• Come on, I know bad acting when I hear it.

  Denzel Washington

  Acting, Knows

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

  Piper Laurie

  Believe, Names, Acting

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• It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

  Oscar Wilde

  Acting, Moral

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• I'm happy to say that I have not been fired off a film. The score is usually the last thing to be done. So a lot lands on the scores shoulders. A lot of problems that seem to have nothing to do with the music gets blamed on the music , because it's relatively cheap to change, where as a reshoot etc is not. Music is often expected to help or fix bad cuts, bad acting, bad filming, bad timing, you name it.

  Trevor Rabin

  Cutting, Land, Names

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• Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.

  Debra Winger

  Acting, Ultimate

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

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• What I like about [Berthold] Brecht, it's very interesting. When Helene Weigel came over and somebody talked about Lotte Lenya and said "well, she wasn't alienating." And Weigel said "No, no, no. Why, Lotte Lenya was so true - who cares?" She said: "Berti only developed the theory of alienation in order to stop bad acting." I heard her say that. Now that's brilliant.

  John Hurt

  Order, Interesting, Acting

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• I have an appreciation for what some people would call "bad acting," but which I think can be much more real than the overly emotive, technical and supposedly "realistic" acting that is so prevalent in mainstream cinema.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Appreciation, Real, Thinking

  "Reading photographs may be like reading language, but only up to a point". Interview with Bucky Miller, believermagblog.wordpress.com. June 6, 2014.

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• We're not allowed in the cutting room - and that's extraordinary. So, when a director is asking for certain nuances and colours and we feel that they're phoney, but we do it because the director asks for it, that's the one that they pick in the cutting room. And I contend that when you see a movie with bad acting, don't blame the actor... blame those guys in the cutting room because they like that take.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Cutting, Guy, Acting

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?

  Paul Newman

  Men, Careers, Giving

  "Newman remains animated at 81". Craig Modderno, Reuters, June 12, 2006.

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• Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor

  Rex Harrison

  Emotional, Acting, Actors

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• I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call indicating, when you twirl your mustache.

  Billy Campbell

  Mustache, Acting, Actors

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor you'll always get bad acting. Every actor is scared just like a regular person.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Thinking, Order, Acting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.

  Herbert Spencer

  Skills, Political, Humanity

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• Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said, 'Inconsiderate? Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.' It's a collective slap to a million faces at the same time.

  Debra Winger

  Acting, Faces, Schedules

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled after two or three types, and those the least like types of good acting. The fault generally lies less in the bad imitation of a good model, than in the successful imitation of a bad model.

  George Henry Lewes

  Lying, Writing, Successful

  George Henry Lewes (1875). “On Actors and the Art of Acting”, p.185, London Smith, Elder 1875.

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• Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles they have become so skillful at that they seem pure and natural...Much bad Acting is the result of being too close to the Actor's everyday self, confining him in its rigid mold.

  Richard Hornby

  Self, Everyday, Acting

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• Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

  James Wolcott

  Wall, Eye, Personality

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