Acting Quotes - Page 24

• I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And I'll end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is passionate.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Art, Home, Sleep

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people don't realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you're not just performing martial arts. You're not just performing martial arts. You're actually acting as much as any other actor.

  Donnie Yen

  Art, People, Actors

  "Interview with Action Film Star Donnie Yen". "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

  Donnie Yen

  Art, Drama, The End Of The Day

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• Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

  Jonah Hill

  Wise, Writing, Careers

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. May 31, 2007.

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• A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.

  Ben Schwartz

  Thinking, Play, Two

  "Undercovers' Ben Schwartz on Agent Hoyt, Action Stunts and Improv in the Spy World". Interview with Kate Stanhope, www.tvguide.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

  Reid Scott

  Listening, Attention, Ifs

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• When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldnt be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to LA and continue to pursue the acting thing.

  Dan Byrd

  School, Parent, Able

  "Dan Byrd’s Norman Invasion". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Its hard for me to listen to any actors whine or moan about anything acting-related because look at the world. We really have nothing to complain about. Just to be working is a blessing.

  Dan Byrd

  Blessing, World, Complaining

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• I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Dancing, Singing, Toddler

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach acting from a podium.

  Rex Harrison

  Thinking, Important, Teach

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

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• I believe acting is very physical, and when you have to fight or do those kinds of things, it takes a lot of respect not to allow yourself to go off and hurt yourself or someone else.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Hurt, Believe, Fighting

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• I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

  Gene Wilder

  Fantasy, Kind, Realistic

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• I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is.

  Irene Dunne

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

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• I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.

  Mara Wilson

  People, Appreciate, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

  Laurence Fox

  Jobs, Two, Actors

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• There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.

  Laurence Fox

  Knowing, Rude, Guilty

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• If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besides that Twilight thing?'

  Robert Pattinson

  Hate, Twilight, Ideas

  "Robert Pattinson interview: Reality bites". Interview With Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Cosmopolis is the movie of my life. I didn't consider myself an actor before, even if I had 10 years of acting behind me. I always felt like a fraud, and inappropriate. I doubt a lot. David Cronenberg gave me confidence in myself. He changed my way of acting and thinking in this industry.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Years, Doubt

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• I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

  Sam Rockwell

  Fuel, Want, Melancholy

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

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• Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Way, Film

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

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• For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?

  Julia Garner

  Senior, Home, School

  "SXSW FUTURES | Indie World is Smitten with High School Senior and ‘Electrick Children’ Star Julia Garner". Interview with Bryce J. Renninger, www.indiewire.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I like to do stuff for my brothers and sisters to appreciate because they look up to me, and for other kids around the world who want to get into acting or who just want to have somebody to look up to.

  Kyla Pratt

  Brother, Kids, Appreciate

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• As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

  Jesse L. Martin

  Students, Impossible, Study

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• I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.

  Vinnie Jones

  Real, Drama, Independent

  "Vinnie Jones Interviewed - THE CONDEMNED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 22, 2007.

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• I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

  Clive Owen

  Character, Fighting, Creating

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