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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is reacting. That's when acting is great - when you say something, somebody said something, they make a face, they pose, they use something physical, then you react to that, then they react to you.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actress, my ultimate goal is to create a universal experience in my acting.
- First Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
- Evidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer acting as scientists.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Modeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
- Modeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was just picked from the streets to do some acting, and that's how I got started.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
- Surprise
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you can surprise yourself, you're truly acting.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
- Hobby
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.
- Concentrated
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- Nov 07, 2020