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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
- Modeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started when I was four because I had asked my parents, I begged them, 'Can I do acting? I really want to do this!' and they let me do it, so that's pretty much how I got started.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.
- Fervent
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- Nov 07, 2020
If tough old Lefty Helen Mirren can warm towards the Crown after impersonating Her Majesty, who's next? Since reigning and acting have so much in common, it's surprising all actors aren't fervent royalists.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do figure every angle of a guy I'm acting - but not consciously 'til afterward.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020