Acting Quotes - Page 6

• The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Feelings, Actors, Joints

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.320, Routledge

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• 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 can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Tired, Night, Flying

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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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• 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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• 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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• I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

  Tia Carrere

  Kind, Grades, Eighth Grade

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

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• I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

  John Sayles

  Book, Agents, Scales

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• She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

  Marguerite Duras

  Opposites, Wife, Infidelity

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• I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

  Loni Anderson

  School, Kids, Reality

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• Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy.

  Clive Swift

  Sports, Moving, Player

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• I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

  Meryl Streep

  Mother, Children, Believe

  "Super trouper of the silver screen" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2008.

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• Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

  Jack Nicholson

  Wardrobe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

  Jack Lemmon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Needs

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• Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

  John Burroughs

  Keys, Two, Voice

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• Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

  Rosalind Russell

  Motivational, Theatre, Naked

  "Life is a Banquet". Book by Rosalind Russell, 1977.

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• Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Humorous, Rejection, Actors

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

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• Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Nice, Selling, Pretending

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

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• In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

  Marlon Brando

  Faces, Your Face, Inches

  New York Times, July 2, 2004.

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• I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Class, Way, Helping

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• Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

  Scott Caan

  Writing, Creative, Drug

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• I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.

  Mary Crosby

  Names, People, Parent

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• My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Priorities, Way, Advertising

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• Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

  Stars, Ideas, Actors

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

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• I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.

  Kevin Kline

  Stars, Stupid, Thinking

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

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