- Film Sets
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- 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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting. It's the number one thing I love to do. That's why when people ask me what else I'd love to do, I have no answer - this is all I ever wanted to do.
- Guthrie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to directing wasn't a reaction away from acting as much as it was a move towards something I always wanted to do. Ever since I was a kid, I was interested in the camera and how it worked and why one director would place it in this part of the room and then another would place it in that part of the room.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I'd grown up with this singular focus on sports, I just kind of did that with acting. That became an obsession. How am I going to make it? How am I going to figure that out?
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no right in acting.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything isn't working out perfectly every time.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do find acting cathartic.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
- Dancer
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- Nov 07, 2020