- Creative
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- 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
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that.
- Drifted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that. I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's all the same animal for me. There are actors who sing, and there are actors who direct, and I also improvise. That's one thing I do as part of my acting. I don't really separate the two.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My acting has got to be natural. I didn't go to any drama schools. It's a gift from God.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been acting over 3 decades now, so I think after all these years of experience I can get into any character very smoothly.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything about acting was either the opposite of my personality or it just didn't seem like something I wanted to be a part of.
- Ingenue
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early acting was ingenue stuff.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.
- Nov 07, 2020
I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came out to L. A., I got a part in an episode of 'Star Trek: Voyager,' and I hired an acting coach.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020