Acting Quotes - Page 40

• The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

  Mason Cooley

  Actors, Pleasure, Theater

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• I have forgiven all the old actors for dying.
  A new one comes on with the same lines,
  like large white growths, in his mouth.
  The dancers come on from the wings,
  perfectly mated.

  Anne Sexton

  Wings, White, Dancer

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

  Tod Machover

  Art, People, Should

  Scientific American Interview, www.scientificamerican.com.

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• The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

  Charles A. Murray

  Children, Average, Law

  "The Age of Educational Romanticism". The New Criterion, May 01, 2008.

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• Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Believe, Men, Imagine

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• I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions. The English ought to give up their notorious violations of the unities, and all their massacres, racks, dead bodies, and mangled carcasses, which they so frequently exhibit upon their stage. The French should engage to have more action, and less declamation, and not to cram and to crowd things together to almost a degree of impossibility from a too scrupulous adherence to the unities.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving Up, Party, Unity

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.248, Oxford Paperbacks

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• This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.

  R. C. Sproul

  Religious, Jesus, Father

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• The trouble with plays these days is that they're too easy to understand.

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Play, Trouble, Easy

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• I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so its really confusing.

  Yara

  Confusing, Want, Historian

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• It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Death, Real, Loss

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• What's wrong with lust? You fancy your neighbor's husband so what are you supposed to do? Poke your eyes out so that you can't see him anymore? Acting on it is maybe a sin ... but my God, just lusting after someone? Is that so bad?

  Emma Goldman

  Husband, Eye, Lust

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• What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in acting in union with God himself, who created and ultimately controls all other forces.

  Dallas Willard

  Mean, Unions, Force

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• I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

  Vivien Leigh

  Thinking, Giving, Important

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• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  College, Thinking, Important

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• In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Real, Character

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.79, Bantam Classics

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• Acting is not just doing! It is who you are being and what you are experiencing that causes you to do - to need to act. Then doing turns arounds and changes your being. But doing without being is lifeless.

  Jason Bennett

  Needs, Causes, Lifeless

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• Culture is an abstraction; it cannot actually be seen or touched.... We see people acting in agreed-upon ways in the face of similar situations...we notice people moving their bodies in certain ways - making choices in their lives about where to live, what to eat, how to learn, how to work and love - in response to similar events and experiences, and say: "oh, these people belong to the same culture".

  H. Ned Seelye

  Moving, People, Choices

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• We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.

  Sybil Thorndike

  Long, People, Giving

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• We need to start acting like a team, focus on winning and not worry about all of the other stuff that goes on. We lost our focus last year. We worried about who was being hired, who was being fired. That's got to change. We don't need any more finger pointing. We need to act like a team.

  Albert Belle

  Team, Winning, Years

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• The king-becoming graces,
  As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,
  Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
  Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
  I have no relish of them, but abound
  In the division of each several crime,
  Acting in many ways.

  William Shakespeare

  Perseverance, Kings, Justice

  William Shakespeare (2002). “Macbeth”, p.186, Barron's Educational Series

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• It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Casts

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• There is life after acting.

  Suzanne Crough

  Life

  "Suzanne Crough, of the 'Partridge Family,' dies at 52", www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2015.

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• I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.

  Don Ameche

  Growing Up, College, Law

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• I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.'

  Daniel Logan

  Stars, War, Gone Away

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

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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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