Acting Quotes - Page 2

• Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

  Elaine Dundy

  Actors, Acting From Actors, Contrary

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• An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

  Sanford Meisner

  Theatre, Pounds, Behavior

  Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.4, Vintage

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• Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

  Washington Irving

  Fulfillment, Fulfilled, Fulfilment

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• I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Art, Drama, Thinking

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by J.K. Hoyt & K.L. Roberts, p. 4-6, 1922.

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• Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Perfect, Actors, Idiot

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• Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Drama, Interesting, Actors

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• The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Character, Play

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1840). “The life and exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha: In four volumes”, p.27

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• This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Life, Procrastination, Humor

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• The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.

  Brennan Manning

  Reality, Decision, Promise

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• Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

  Bette Davis

  Bigger Than Life, Scripts, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

  Al Pacino

  Athlete, Emotional, Suffering

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• I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.

  Minnie Driver

  Cute, Girl, Responsibility

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• I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Actors

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

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• One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

  Liv Ullmann

  Inspirational, Motivational, Healthy

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• Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Thinking Of You, Time

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• There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

  Tim Robbins

  Actors, Boring, Unintelligent

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• The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

  Craig MacDonald

  Intellectual, Best Acting

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• If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  People, Like Me, Ifs

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• Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Thinking

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• Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

  Marlon Brando

  Maturity, Expression, Quitting

  "He was always a contender" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2004.

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• Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

  Bette Davis

  Stage Actors, Wonder, Creation

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

  Gene Hackman

  Honesty, Real, People

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• I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

  Elaine Dundy

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.130, New York Review of Books

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• I went to school, majored in theatre, and said 'Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an actor.' A couple of weeks after I graduated college I called my mother up and said 'Can I borrow $200?' and she said 'Why don't you act like you've got $200.'

  Arsenio Hall

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

  Glenn Close

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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