Acting Quotes - Page 7

• Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Attitude, Long Ago, Bridges

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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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• Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

  Jean Kerr

  People, Ordinary, Actors

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.74, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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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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• It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

  Blythe Danner

  School, Play, Firsts

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• I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

  Bob Balaban

  Thinking, Games, Directors

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• I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

  Uta Hagen

  Thinking, Theatre, Levels

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• I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

  Stephen Rea

  Moving, Guy, Want

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

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• Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

  Corbin Bernsen

  Parent, Want, Wells

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

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• Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

  Jet Li

  Normal, Forget, Said

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• The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.

  Paul Bettany

  Sex, Fun, Talking

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

  Scott Caan

  Writing, Creative, Drug

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• I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

  W. H. Auden

  Jobs, Looks

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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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• Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.

  Marie Windsor

  Years, Stella, Late

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• Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

  Blythe Danner

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• Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

  Mira Sorvino

  Giving, Legs, Film

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• I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

  Peter Gallagher

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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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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• I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.

  Mark Goddard

  Lucky, Kind

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• A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.24, Yale University Press

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• I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

  Richard M. Nixon

  History, Watergate, I Can

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• What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Hints, Good Book

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.24, Yale University Press

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• Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

  Uta Hagen

  Reality, Self, Vivid Imagination

  Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

  Nicholas Lea

  Jobs, Years, Lucky

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

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