- 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
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I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.
- Private
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is actually private.
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As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.
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And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.
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I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.
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When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned enough times in life that saying something is completely different than acting upon it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
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- Nov 07, 2020