- Lost
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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
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
Israel is much more effective when the Israelis are convinced that we are on the moral high ground: that we are acting not just out of might, but also out of right.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People assume I'm posh because I'm one of the acting dames. I grew up in Tottenham and didn't used to speak like I do now.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I have worked professionally as a musician, photographer, and writer. I've been able to earn my living in other ways, but I always knew I'd come back to acting.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
- All My Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020