Acting Quotes - Page 10

• Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

  Al Pacino

  Careers, Vision, Lines

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• One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Real, Men, Voice

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• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Separate Reality”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

  Bette Davis

  Laughing, Actors, Remember

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• It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

  Sydney Smith

  Beauty, Running, Trying

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• If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

  Thornton Wilder

  Secret, Actors, Agents

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• She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Actors, Emotion

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Motivation, Opposites, Scene

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.55, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Competition, Healthy, Actors

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• We don't live for realities, but for the fantasies, the dreams of what might be. If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going...When you are acting, don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your character's future.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Dream, Character, Reality

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• Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Animal, Men

  William Hazlitt (1826). “Notes of a journey through France and Italy ...”, p.246

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• One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

  Robert De Niro

  Pay The Price, People, Pay

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• Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

  James Spader

  Girl, Fun, Our Society

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• Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

  Alan Rickman

  Escaping, Who I Am, Play

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• It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

  John Malkovich

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

  Lucy Lawless

  Night, Sitting, Literature

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• And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

  Horace

  Girl, Tragedy, Farce

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• A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Serious, Comedy

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.162

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• Acting is a form of confession.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Confession, Form

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.320, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Basketball

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• I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

  Stan Lee

  Movie, Frustration, Numbers

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• If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Color, Being Different

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• I need to go where people are serious about acting.

  Meryl Streep

  People, Needs, Serious

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• I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

  Meryl Streep

  Thinking, Self

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