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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.
- Danger
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In acting, you can't do things for the money. You've got to do a project because you like it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole reason I do what I do, both in music and acting, is to make people feel something, to really relate to what I do on a personal level.
- Awesome
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am greatly impressed with the BBC's TV adaption of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House.' The costumes, the sets, the acting and the screenplay are all superb. Every episode is riveting.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020