- Me
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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
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied political science, and when I fell into acting in college - it was just a total fluke that I became an actor. I ended up changing my degree and went for a double major and missed political science by two classes.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting, I get to explore other people and other characters; with music, I get to express and explore myself.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I kept the two separate: Michael Horse the artist and Michael Horse the actor. I like the acting, but I'm an artist; that's my identity.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suddenly I was writing a lot of screenplays, and I was no long in New York, so I stopped acting in plays, and it just became too tricky to find a part to play, either in a play or a film that coincided with my schedule writing and or directing.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
- Nov 07, 2020