Acting Quotes - Page 12

• Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

  George Burns

  Funny, Success, Fake People

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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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• 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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• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom suppressed introductory chapter (1926).

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• When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone on the stage. All the great figures of history ... will realize that they have been but actors in a drama produced by another.

  Helmut Thielicke

  God, Jesus, Drama

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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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• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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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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• 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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• An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Inspirational, Women, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All the world's a stage.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dance

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting

  Tony Randall

  Enjoyed

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• Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

  Frank O'Hara

  Party, Rain, Love You

  Frank O'Hara (2014). “Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, City Lights Books

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• You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Air, Spinning Plates, Guy

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• Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Movie, Drama, Hierarchy

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• I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Theatre, Actors

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• Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Doe, Actors, Comedy

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• Acting doesn't have anything to do with listening to the words. We never really listen, in general conversation, to what the other person is saying. We listen to what they mean. And what they mean is often quite apart from the words. When you see a scene between two actors that goes really well you can be sure they're not listening to each other - they're feeling what the other person is trying to get at. Know what I mean?

  Jack Lemmon

  Mean, Two, Feelings

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• By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wish, Courses, Dues

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

  Glenda Jackson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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

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• The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

  Stella Adler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Voice

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.19, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

  Jessie Redmon Fauset

  Life, Change, Thinking

  Jessie Redmon Fauset (1924). “There is Confusion”, p.267, UPNE

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• It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  'On the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) pt. 2, sect. 2

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