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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really enjoy working. I really enjoy telling stories. I really enjoy acting. The idea that I would have a baby and stop doing that was unrealistic to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting's all about stepping out of the box, so I don't want to go to work every day and play Cassie Scerbo at all.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.
- Nov 07, 2020
I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't expect to pursue acting at all, let alone TV and film, let alone New York or L.A. I was quite content doing Shakespeare out in Wisconsin.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Georgia, and I started acting in plays when I was like eight years old, and I always memorized everyone's parts, not just my own, and I always memorized everyone's blocking. Whenever anyone wasn't there, I would always jump in. I was very hands-on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I didn't know Canadians could be actors. I thought just Americans could get acting jobs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.
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- Nov 07, 2020