- Limits
- |
- 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
- He
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
- Never
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.
- Better
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.
- Know
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.
- Old
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
- Banana
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.
- Nov 07, 2020
Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.
- Know
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.
- Navy
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Acting and the navy seem to balance each other out - I've not surrendered over to the complete process of the navy, nor have I surrendered to the ego-driven process of acting.
- Experience
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.
- Love
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.
- Future
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.
- Nov 07, 2020