Acting Quotes - Page 20

• One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

  Allison Janney

  Eye, Listening, Actors

  "MINIONS: Allison Janney and Jon Hamm Talk Animation, Their Characters, and More". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. July 9, 2015.

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• I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.

  Dito Montiel

  Fans, Actors, Way

  "Interview: Dito Montiel Talks Boulevard (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. July 10, 2015.

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• We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.

  Barack Obama

  Use, Conflict, Justified

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, Profession

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you're working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you're wearing or where you are.

  Steven Spielberg

  Party, Thinking, Skills

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• If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

  Morgan Freeman

  Causes, Talent, Clue

  "Morgan Freeman Talks ISLAND OF LEMURS: MADAGASCAR, His Narration Process, Science, LIFE ITSELF, and More". collider.com. April 1, 2014.

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• Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

  Sophia Bush

  Passion, School, Doctors

  Source: z15.invisionfree.com

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• What has always been most interesting about acting to me personally is that it affords you the chance to shift gears, both in terms of the experiences you get to have through doing it, but also the different kinds of things you get to represent.

  Edward Norton

  Interesting, Different, Gears

  Interview with Nora Ephron, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 2000.

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• I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons Actors have no inhibitions, and Im inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy

  Fun, Skills, Actors

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• I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Depressing, Jobs, Creativity

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV, How the Idea Came about, His Collaborative Company, Inspiring People to Contribute, and Plans for Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 15, 2014.

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• I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.

  Billy Crystal

  Art, Eye, College

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because an ancestor or two happened to arrive here on the Mayflower. You don't even have to be a registered Republican.

  Lisa Birnbach

  School, Two, Lucky

  Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing

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• In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.

  Kirby Page

  War, Army, Judging

  Kirby Page (1976). “Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology”, Dissertations-G

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• When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.

  Masiela Lusha

  Heart, Selfless, Profession

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• If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.

  African Spir

  Compassion, Selfishness, Alive

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 57), 1937.

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• Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can stop (or prevent, "empâecher", Fr.) men from acting badly; the natural sense of commiseration (or "sympathy", - "commisération", Fr.) for one's fellow men - compassion, and the influence of education, by association of ideas ("par l'association d'idées", Fr.) - habit.

  African Spir

  Selfish, Compassion, Men

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 57), 1937.

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• The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.

  Lydia M. Child

  Self, Law, Joy

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• I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of those things.

  Mark Salling

  Artist, Cooking, Sketching

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• I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Mean, Focus, Splits

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• I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Dream, Jobs, Ends

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• If there is any sense of order to the universe, acting is what I am meant to do. I'm not manufactured. I know acting isn't real, that it's temporary. If there is any theme to the roles I play, it is emotional vulnerability and availability.

  DJ Qualls

  Real, Emotional, Order

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

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• At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

  Ray Winstone

  School, People, Cows

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• Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

  Rosamund Pike

  Pain, Laughing, Joy

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• Acting has always been a passion of mine, so any opportunity that allows me to do that is definitely of interest to me.

  Nick Jonas

  Passion, Opportunity, Interest

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• It's not work, it is more of a passion. It is so much fun and it is really makes you feel great at the end of the day. You feel like you are really after doing something good and you are after accomplishing something. Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Fun, Dad, Love You

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

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