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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
A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With acting, you do want to get every job, and you're trying to get every audition, but then you reach a certain stage where you start to kind of gravitate toward the stories and the people that have a similar heartbeat.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting manifested as the primary focus over the years but now I am stirring the pot once again with my voice.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn't long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay's life began to shatter.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.
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- Nov 07, 2020