Acting Quotes - Page 28

• As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.

  Harry Lloyd

  Children, Mirrors, Stories

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• If Im honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason Im still doing it, and if Im still doing it in ten years time, Im sure Ill find something else.

  Harry Lloyd

  Years, Honest, Reason

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• Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.

  Tyne Daly

  Thinking, Parent, Important

  "Love and All That Comes With It". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. May 23, 2014.

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• My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

  Jessica Raine

  Goes On, Firsts, Costumes

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

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• That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.

  Ryan Guzman

  Baseball, Player, Thinking

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

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• The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

  Stewart Brand

  Thinking, Long, Understanding

  Stewart Brand (1999). “The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility”, p.12, Basic Books

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• Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

  Aristotle

  Vices, Doe, Able

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

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• I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

  Rupert Graves

  Careers, Concrete

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

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• We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Opposites, Quality

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

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• I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.

  Christine Lakin

  Kids, Ucla, Class

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• I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.

  Tippi Hedren

  Grateful, Careers, Use

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• Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didnt read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Son, Artist, World

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks FRANKIE GO BOOM, the Success of SONS OF ANARCHY, His Desire to Direct, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 13, 2012.

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• Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.

  Camryn Manheim

  Years, Rejection, Constitution

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• Theater will always be my first love. The time and dedication that goes into the rehearsal process with the cast and crew is something that TV/Movie acting does not offer.

  April Parker Jones

  First Love, Dedication, Doe

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Change, Thinking, Way

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.93, Penguin

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• I am fairly embraced by the Hollywood community, and I love making movies and I love acting, but I'm not real crazy about the Hollywood system. So the fact that they embrace me is a shock to me because I tell them to kiss my ass all the time. I don't understand why they haven't thrown me out on my ear. The other thing is I don't participate much. I have very few friends within the movie community. I hang out with some guys I've known forever. They're all broke and eat me out of house and home. But I stay home mostly and I don't go to the parties. Maybe that preserves me.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Crazy, Real, Party

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

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• I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.

  Damian Lewis

  Reality, People, Actors

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• Acting is a mysterious process.

  Bertie Carvel

  Mysterious, Process

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• I caught the acting bug from my dad.

  Finn Wittrock

  Dad, Bugs, Caught

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

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• For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Teaching, Sight, Focus

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• I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

  Amy Poehler

  Thinking, Talking, Listening

  "How Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, David Wain and Michael Showalter Conducted the Most Perfect Junket Interview Ever". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.thewrap.com. July 16, 2014.

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• I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.

  Christian McKay

  School, Boys, Eight

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• I never stop. I don't want to stop acting because I'm afraid it'll all end, so I never say no.

  Allison Janney

  Want, Ends

  "Jon Hamm, Allison Janney Interview, The Minions Movie". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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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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• I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, Profession

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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