Acting Quotes - Page 34

• Death Of A Salesman is a great acting job.

  Ken Stott

  Jobs, Salesman

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• I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become firm in any way that I needed, and he just let me try things and to explore what I can do with my acting. So that was very helpful.

  Willow Shields

  Trying, Here And There, Way

  "Comic-Con 2012: 'Hunger Games' Star Willow Shields on Playing Jennifer Lawrence's Sister". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 17, 2012.

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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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• Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.

  Stephen Lang

  Writing, Responsibility, Fantastic

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

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• I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.

  Stephen Lang

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

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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 never really got on my own case about my own acting. I know a lot of other people have, and probably very justifiably. But I don't worry about stuff like that too much.

  Troy Donahue

  People, Worry, Stuff

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• Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and its a very strange one.

  Philip Glenister

  Jobs, The End Of The Day, Strange

  "Philip Glenister: My family values". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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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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• 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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• Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.

  Aristotle

  Passion, Men, Self

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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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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• Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like Im sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But its not supposed to be that way.

  Carole Bouquet

  Mother, Jobs, Aunt

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• I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

  Nick Frost

  School, Thinking, Way

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. September 2005.

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• To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Opposites, Realization, World

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• Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.

  Kim Alexis

  Two, People, Romance

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• Acting is the loneliest profession I know.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Profession, Knows

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• The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.

  Herbert Spencer

  Skills, Political, Humanity

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• You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art at their two extremes - say Pure Mathematics and Acting. Science as a rule deals with things, Art with man's thought and emotion about things.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Art, Men, Two

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• In order to be able to work with somebody in acting, you've first got to think that person's a good actor before you can enjoy working with them. I guess that goes with the trust.

  Tim DeKay

  Thinking, Order, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Voicing acting is usually fun. I'm very curious about that world. I'm a fan of documentaries, as well, and the voice kind of makes it right. Mostly for me, though, it's all about the acting -you don't have to get hair and makeup and the whole bit. You just can have fun with the acting.

  Marg Helgenberger

  Fun, Makeup, Hair

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

  Zac Efron

  Fame

  "Zac Efron and Corbin Bleu Dish on High School Musical 3: Senior Year". movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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• I was working more on a primal, instinctive level. And it just seemed to suit me; it seemed to suit my concentration span, it seemed to suit my personal style of performance, and I have fallen in love with film acting.

  Ron Perlman

  Style, Suits, Levels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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