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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
From the first audition on stage, I knew I loved acting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've definitely had crazy acting teachers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did some acting in college. But then everything stopped when I was a junior, in the fall of 2001, when I started becoming religious. Once I became a full-on Hasidic, I stopped everything. I stopped music. I stopped acting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among other things, Marching Band forms state that if my kid starts acting like a li'l jerkface on a trip, Marching Band can call and command me to pick up my li'l jerkface.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never challenged when it came to acting as a youngster. I sort of just did whatever was given to me without asking questions. I didn't really understand why I enjoyed it or why I did it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My personal opinions on any subject are really not relevant, not important, and to the extent that I might inject them, I am acting improperly as either a District Court judge or as an appellate court judge.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.
- Nov 07, 2020