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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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- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.
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There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting's fun, but life's more important.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Hollywood, a lot of acting feels like grandstanding.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not into that method acting thing. I just turn up, say my lines and go home.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a wonderful experience acting with Prasenjit Chatterjee, the reigning king of Kolkata's film industry.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once acting hit me, once that bug hit me, I just... took the jump and dove right in.
- Beat
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- Nov 07, 2020