Acting Quotes
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I still believe America’s destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.
Senator John Kerry
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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
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one`s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking
Grace McGarvie
Subject: Thinking Quotes :: Traditions QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne Dyer
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Gustav Jung
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Gustav Jung
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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
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You`re never as good as you`d like to be. So there`s always something to hope for.
Washington Irving
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Life`s like a play; it`s not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters
Seneca
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Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
John Gielgud
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde
Subject: Actors and Acting QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde
Subject: Acting QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that`s what the storyteller is, and I think it`s important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors ...
Ben Kingsley
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It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we...
James Dean
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Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I`m not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am g...
Alan Rickman
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The two films I did with Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity (1944) and the The Apartment (1960), are the only two parts I did in my entire career that required any acting.
Fred MacMurray
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[upon seeing Dustin Hoffman`s "method" acting technique of not sleeping and making a mess of himself to get into character while shooting Marathon Man (1976)] Dear boy, it`s called acting.
Laurence Olivier
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[upon seeing Dustin Hoffman`s "method" acting technique of not sleeping and making a mess of himself to get into character while shooting Marathon Man (1976)] Dear boy, it`s called acting.
Laurence Olivier
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I just tried to live in the moment and be natural, as if there were no cameras there. Maybe it`s because I felt like singing and acting are related. When you`re singing you have to sell it. You act out that song; you have to know the meaning and purpose o...
Jennifer Hudson
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I`m probably more personal when I`m acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be something that I can`t always feel comfortable with when I`m living my own life, you know? Because it`s make- believe.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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I`d just like to be in films that I would like to see. I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don`t know what I`m going to come at you with.
Jack Black
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[1970 comment on Jean Renoir] He`s my style. Renoir`s good for actors. Renoir obviously loves actors and understands actors, and "La Grande Illusion," which I saw recently, is so modern that it could have been made this year -- the acting and the staging ...
James Mason
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
Robin Williams
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There`s a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away wit it. I`d hate to see them on stage...
Joan Blondell
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There`s a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away wit it. I`d hate to see them on stage...
Joan Blondell
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people`s personalities and adding some of your own experiences.
Paul Newman
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(on his reluctance to expose the mechanics of his acting process) It`s not that I want to pull the shutters down. It`s just that people have such a misconception about what it is I do. They think the character comes from staying in the wheelchair or being...
Daniel Day-Lewis
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There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.
Sofia Vassilieva
