- 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
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been acting since I was 9, but in college I entered the drama program, and I didn't excel at it at all, kind of for the first time.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been acting for years. I always act surprised when Marco Rubio says something stupid.
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest acting performance was pretending to enjoy the movie 'Selma'.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a naive decision, and I joined the Navy. I figured I would use the G.I. Bill to pay for any college I wanted. I dreamed of going to Julliard to study music and acting.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.
- Commercially
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to go out for everything. I go out for any acting stuff that comes up, and voice-over stuff.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020