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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
I didn't go into acting because I wanted to be a role model.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting has never excited me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 'Raees,' I used to wonder how I'd feel working on another film and to do this and still enjoy it - I know now I like acting; I enjoy it.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be acting until the day I die!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.
- Nov 07, 2020
You learn to act by acting. You only get so much from acting class. You have to put your act on stage.
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- Nov 07, 2020