Acting Quotes - Page 32

• 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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

  Andy Serkis

  Technology, Action, Distinction

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• In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.

  Matthew Rhys

  Games, Twenties, Window

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• I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

  Andy Serkis

  Giving, Canvas, Bigger

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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 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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• 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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• My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.

  Riz Ahmed

  Character, Reflection, Roles

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• I had an amazing experience doing 'Skins.' It was the first acting I'd ever done in my entire life, so I had to learn on set for those two years. I had to keep my head screwed on and learn from the other cast.

  Mitch Hewer

  Years, Two, Skins

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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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• 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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• At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Careers, Two, Village

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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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• 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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• I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, "God, they don't paint behind the sets." It's a bit of a shame, really - "Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood." I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.

  Andy Serkis

  Wall, Real, Kids

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. January 27, 2003.

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• Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.

  Andy Serkis

  Pressure, God Knows, Cookers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

  Rufus Sewell

  Disappointment, Years, Depth

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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