Acting Quotes

• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

  Al Pacino

  Truth, Lying, Montana

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• With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.150, Lulu.com

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  Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

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• I'm not a film star; I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

  Vivien Leigh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fake People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

  William Hazlitt

  Dream, Hypocrite, Actors

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.218

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• Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  People, Personality, Actors

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• It's an acting job - acting natural.

  Alistair Cooke

  Jobs, Natural

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• There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Unfaithful, Untrue

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

  Danny Bonaduce

  School, Bumps, Lines

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• Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

  Meryl Streep

  Art, Empathy, Actors

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• Only the gentle are ever really strong.

  James Dean

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Things To Do, Neurotic

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• An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

  Norma Shearer

  Ego, Actresses, Talent

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• Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

  Kate Reid

  Emotional, Actors, Able

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• The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, College, Men

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• It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

  Christian Bale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Acting means living, it's all I do.

  Morgan Freeman

  Mean, African American

  "Morgan Freeman: 10 things you need to know about the Oscar-nominated actor". www.mirror.co.uk. February 18, 2010.

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• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Scott Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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• I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

  Aaliyah

  Character, Action, Scene

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• I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Filled Up, Literature, Next

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• Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

  Glenn Close

  Funny, Humorous, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  People, Theatre, Ordinary

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• The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Real, Writing

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