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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a medical doctor and cardiac surgeon, I had the responsibility of performing open-heart surgery on President Spencer W. Kimball in 1972, when he was Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, that is the craft of acting: literally creating something from nothing.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt like acting was something I could just do if I wanted, which was wrong.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to go into acting.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.
- Pigeon
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.
- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.
- Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
My acting technique is a combination of a lot of different ones. A lot of it is Meisner.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, I love acting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apart from acting and singing, there is a philanthropist inside me who craves to do something for the needy and less fortunate.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020