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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
My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.
- Nov 07, 2020
One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As humans, we've all experienced some level of pain. Acting is just a matter of accessing and magnifying these emotions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school in the Bronx. I learned to constantly try to cover up the fact that I was gay. That facade of being somebody I'm really not just to protect myself definitely helped with acting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to a point where I was completely typecast, and I knew I was paying my dues, and I was happy to do so because I knew that's what had to happen, and I loved acting. But I would never go back.
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- Nov 07, 2020