Acting Quotes - Page 14

• Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Motivational, Different

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• Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

  Michael Shurtleff

  Emotional, Discovery, Granted

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• There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Character, Fighting, Want

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• All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

  Meryl Streep

  Faith, Blind Belief, Actors

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• I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Choices, Theatre, Needs

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Drama, Play, Interesting

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• I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

  Tim Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophy

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• A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Artist, Feelings, Way

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.216, A&C Black

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• Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

  George Eliot

  Play, Ideas, Best Acting

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• You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.

  Jeremy Brett

  Eye, Mind, Realizing

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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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• I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

  Judi Dench

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

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

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• I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Education, Study, Educate

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• I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.

  Chris Noth

  Fun

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• The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

  Charles Churchill

  Lying, Crime, Danger

  'An Epistle to William Hogarth' (1763) l. 51

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• And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

  Joan Collins

  Writing, Stories, Littles

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• I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler

  Judd Nelson

  New York, School, Years

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• I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop

  Shane West

  Giving Up, Not Giving Up, Giving

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• In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

  Joseph Joubert

  Dream, Believe, Able

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman

  Shelley Duvall

  Past, Years, Taught

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• I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing

  Peter Fonda

  Writing, Want, Saddles

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• There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting

  Taryn Manning

  Singing, Useless, Ifs

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• I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

  Pola Negri

  Analysis, Psychological, Ability

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• I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

  Elizabeth Pena

  Vacation, Nightmare, Wonderful

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