Acting Quotes - Page 27

• I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.

  Andy Serkis

  Eye, Watches, Tools

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• I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.

  Ali MacGraw

  Real, Years, Technique

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• I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.

  Callie Thorne

  New York, College, Groups

  "Bridging Tv & Theatre: Callie Thorne & Necessary Roughness". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. September 14, 2011.

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• Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

  Ernie Hudson

  Committed, Has Beens

  "Ernie Hudson talks Oz and losing out on the Ghostbusters cartoon". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. June 13, 2012.

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• There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.

  Kelly Reilly

  Self, Shallow, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?

  Sam Lake

  Art, Games, Elements

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• Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

  Subhash Kak

  Animal, Men, Telling The Truth

  "The Prajna-sutras: Aphorisms of Intuition". Book by Subhash Kak, 2007.

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• Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

  Josh Lieb

  Beach, Real, Coffee

  Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.157, Penguin

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• A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Block, Majority, Purpose

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• The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice can't persuade the town's-people into a dislike of their performance, they'll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters.

  Charlotte Charke

  Character, Men, Envy

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• I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin.

  Rupert Penry-Jones

  Years, Campaigns, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I told everyone that actings for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.

  Judi Shekoni

  Giving, Trying, Lasts

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• I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.

  Tammy Blanchard

  Kids, My Time

  "Tammy Blanchard: 'Not uptight about anything'". Interview with Mark Kennedy, www.deseretnews.com. July 12, 2012.

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• I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.

  Vinessa Shaw

  Children, Fun, Done

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• There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

  Justin Kirk

  Long, People, Missing

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• I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary school, and I found it quite difficult, especially when I'd never stepped into a classroom with boys. So I started looking out in the community for a social outlet. I started getting involved in student films and community theater. Acting began as a hobby.

  Holland Roden

  School, Boys, Community

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• I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Roles, Recurring

  "‘Jersey Shore’ Star Vinny Guadagnino’s Shakespearean Secret" by Jo Piazza, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. Thats why they go into acting!

  Penny Marshall

  Stars, Insecure, Movie Star

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• No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.

  Ken Stott

  Dark, Light, Play

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• For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

  Ken Stott

  Risk, Trying, Lines

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• Death Of A Salesman is a great acting job.

  Ken Stott

  Jobs, Salesman

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• I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa.

  Katie Chang

  Writing, Vices, Use

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• On some level acting is the art of pretend and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

  Stephen Lang

  Art, Imagination, Levels

  "Daddy’s Home! Stephen Lang On Playing Mary Shannon’s Long Gone Father On In Plain Sight!". Interview with Sheldon Wiebe, eclipsemagazine.com. April 19, 2012.

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• As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Play, Long

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• I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and hes incredibly charismatic, even when hes not acting. Hes an incredibly hard worker, and he has a very specific system that he does with his work.

  Jonathan Jackson

  Hard Work, Thinking, Doe

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