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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.
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- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
After my first movie was released, my wife and I went Bouley. A fantastic meal. The whole thing, getting dressed up, acting very adult-y, a lot of fun.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was always theater for me. But part of that came out of the fact that I was always acting out as a kid. I was the kid who didn't play well with others.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music kept me sane between acting jobs.
- Figuring
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I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.
- My Own
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For basically two years, I took acting classes and found my own stride in L.A.
- Landscape
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At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
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What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.
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- Nov 07, 2020