Acting Quotes - Page 5

• First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

  Michael Caine

  Funny, Humorous, Theatre

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• You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

  Mira Sorvino

  School, Play, People

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• Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.

  Richard Hornby

  Theatre, Identity, Roles

  Richard Hornby (1986). “Drama, Metadrama and Perception”, p.71, Associated University Presse

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• An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

  Donald Sinden

  Funny, Humorous, Sound

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• Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Heart, Creating, Essentials

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Giving Up, Character, Use

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• Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

  Brett Somers

  Giving, Being Free, Connections

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• I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

  Ving Rhames

  Whim, English Teacher, Performing Arts

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• Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

  Craig MacDonald

  Shut Up, Explaining

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• I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

  Chauncey Depew

  Fitness, Health, Exercise

  "Four Talks for Bibliophiles" by George Allen, (p. 70), 1958.

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• It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.

  Margaret Hamilton

  Thinking, Subtle, Things You Like

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• After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

  Frances McDormand

  Jobs, Believe, Character

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• An actor is only merchandise.

  Chow Yun-Fat

  Actors, Merchandise

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• At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

  Stephen Rea

  Being Yourself, Cameras, Fronts

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• Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

  Jeremy Irons

  Children, Taken, Actors

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• Listening is not merely hearing, it is receiving the message that is being sent to you. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is letting it land before you react. Listening is letting your reaction make a difference. Listening is active.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Listening, Hearing, Active

  "Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part".

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• A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

  Sophocles

  Work, Men, Doe

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• Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

  Stephen Collins

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Mediocre

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• Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

  Kristin Davis

  Remember, Sometimes, Moments

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• All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

  Glenn Close

  Inspirational, Art, Crafts

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

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• I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds.

  Tracey Gold

  Mother, Love Is, World

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• I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

  Jonathan Taylor Thomas

  Done, Headache, Migraine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dog, Laughter, Player

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 404 (1775)

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• The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.

  Billy Zane

  Would Be, Tools, Looks

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• A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

  Amber Tamblyn

  Stars, Business, Luck

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