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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.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
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Acting is playing, and it is like being a big kid. Yeah, it's great. You get paid.
- Dad
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My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.
- Hometown
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I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
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I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.
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I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
- Mom
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I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
- Jimmy
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- Nov 07, 2020