- Nov 07, 2020
Acting Quotes
Acting is doing, not just saying lines.
These quotes frame acting as something physical and behavioral rather than purely verbal - even listening counts as acting when something real is happening underneath it. One entry traces a path into the craft through local community theater. Related reading in Doing Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020
The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of my actual acting, I don't really like to to copy anyone or replicate anything that I've seen.
- Legend
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sister Kathleen - one year older - was the school's acting legend. Her thing was getting all the parts, even Tiresias. And I wasn't going to mess with that.
- Nov 07, 2020
I started working on stage as a dancer when I was four; by 14 or 15, I knew I wanted to study the craft of acting.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting was my first love before music.
- Nov 07, 2020
Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know anything about acting at all. I was completely green. I got into it to meet people, to try and figure out what I wanted to do.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I promised my mum that if something did happen to her, although I never thought anything would, I told her that I wouldn't give up on acting until I got my Oscar. This was her dream for me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020