Acting Quotes - Page 11

• Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

  Morgan Freeman

  Mean, Troupe, Wells

  FaceBook post by Morgan Freeman from Oct 27, 2013

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• I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

  Steve McQueen

  Bad Ass, Men, Not Sure

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

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• Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

  William S. Burroughs

  Hipster, Men, Advantage

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• I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

  Vivien Leigh

  Should, Method, Knows

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• Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

  River Phoenix

  Halloween, Haunting, Mask

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

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• I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

  Kurt Cobain

  Firsts, Busy, Naive

  "Song: "Very Ape" ("In Utero")". September 21, 1993.

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• Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Dream, People, Invites

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• Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.

  Liam Neeson

  Dog, Morning, Toilets

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• Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Opportunity, Joy

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• An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

  Marlon Brando

  Inspirational, Motivational, Order

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• My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mom, Mother Daughter, Business

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

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• Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

  Marva Collins

  Happiness, Success, Suicide

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• My goal on the show was to be professional. But sometimes you cant help who you have a connection with, and you can only fight it for so long - which I did for a really, really long time.

  Nina Dobrev

  Relationship, Fighting, Long

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• The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every person out there isn't dating a writer.

  Rachel Bloom

  Sexy, Writing, Intelligent

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• There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

  Merle Shain

  Inspirational, Life, Play

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• Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

  Gordon Parks

  Life, Enthusiasm, Habit

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• An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.

  Eve Ensler

  Fighting, Compassion, Mad

  Jody Williams, Eve Ensler (2013). “My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.

  Tadeusz Kantor

  Men, Opposites, Firsts

  Tadeusz Kantor (1993). “A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990”, p.114, Univ of California Press

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• Having God as an identity marker is nothing but a label, a language, and a lifestyle. I'm a Christian. I talk like one. I act like one.
  But having God as an identity changer is so much more. It's lavish abandon to who God is and who He's made me to be. Holding nothing back!

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Change, God, Christian

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jun 16, 2014

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• Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Motivational, Thinking

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• Act as if what you intend to manifest in life is already a reality. Eliminate thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the possibility of it not manifesting. If left undisturbed in your mind and in the mind of intention simultaneously, it will germinate in the physical world.

  Wayne Dyer

  Reality, Mind, World

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from May 06, 2011

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• Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Lee Van Cleef

  Funny, Eye, Roles

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

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• In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

  Gary Cooper

  Funny, Girl, Horse

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• What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can

  Parker Stevenson

  Morning, Work, Cinema

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• All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them.

  Lon Chaney, Jr.

  Sympathy, Father, Character

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