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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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I don't have any theories about acting, and I don't think about how to do it, except that an actor shouldn't take himself too seriously, and shouldn't try to make acting something it isn't.
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Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
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William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.
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Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
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The acting in 'Downton Abbey' has been consistently excellent across the board.
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I was kind of scared of failing at acting.
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I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
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I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.
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I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.
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Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.
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I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.
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Losing my teeth didn't impede my acting, but it was a constant worry and meant I was never completely relaxed.
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