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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 don't have an acting coach, but the closest thing I have would be some of my peers that are my close friends. We bounce ideas off each other and help one another run our lines all the time.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.
- Neck
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have tremendous physical vitality since I had a neck operation, and I'm more aware than I used to be of the tedium of acting.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a passion for acting, without really realising that that's what I should be doing.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020