Acting Quotes - Page 25

• Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyones going Hey! and the next theyre going Who?. You certainly dont need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.

  Jack Davenport

  Knowing, People, Needs

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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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• 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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• I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

  Rupert Graves

  School, Kids, Insecurity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

  Charles Grodin

  Thinking, Cameras, Sense Of Humor

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• I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.

  Matthew Rhys

  Numbers, Interesting, Fulfilling

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• The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.

  Andy Serkis

  Moving, Healthy, Occupation

  "Andy Serkis: From Gollum to Ian Dury". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.

  Trevor Donovan

  School, Class, Design

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• I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.

  Nathan Gamble

  Thinking, Long, Progress

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• I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.

  Steve Valentine

  Years, Feelings, Magic

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• The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

  Riz Ahmed

  People, Trying, Tick

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• Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

  Bryan Batt

  Thinking, People, Silence

  "'Mad Men' Star Brian Batt Stands Up for Gay Actors" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. May 13, 2010.

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• I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

  Gale Harold

  Trying, Study

  "Queer as Folk's Gale Harold". Interview with Ilana Rapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2014.

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• I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

  Michael Moriarty

  Calling, Kind, Theater

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• Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.

  Kurt Angle

  Believe, Wrestling, Kind

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

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• I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

  Hill Harper

  College, Theater

  "Hill Harper Meets Challenges on Screen and in Print" by Melinda Loewenstein, www.backstage.com. August 19, 2011.

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• In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

  Hill Harper

  Teacher, Character, Class

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• My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

  Antonia Thomas

  Father, Musical, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.

  Brian J. White

  Football, People, Training

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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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