Quotes with acting

  • There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
  • Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
  • Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
  • It's an acting job - acting natural.
  • The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
  • When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
  • The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.
  • Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.
  • It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.
  • A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.
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  • Caroll Spinney Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I've gotten to really love acting. And I've gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it's like playing my kid. I can't imagine deliberately stopping.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Ellen Barkin Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
    Ellen Barkin
    American actress and producer (1954 - )
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  • Betty Field I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.
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  • Ben Affleck A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Robert Redford A lot of what acting is paying attention.
    Robert Redford
    American actor (born 1936) (1936 - )
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  • Abba Goold Woolson A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Carlos Castaneda A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Georges Clemenceau A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • William Wordsworth A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Jeanne Moreau Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
    Jeanne Moreau
    French actress (1928 - 2017)
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  • Marguerite Duras Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Carrie Fisher Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Scott Glenn Acting in movies is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left.
    Scott Glenn
    American actor (1941 - )
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  • Sir Laurence Olivier Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism.
    Sir Laurence Olivier
    English actor and stage director (1907 - 1989)
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  • Paul Newman Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
    Paul Newman
    American actor (1925 - 2008)
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  • Billy Crudup Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Bokeem Woodbine Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.
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  • Sir Alec Guiness Acting is happy agony.
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  • Sir Ralph Richardson Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
    Sir Ralph Richardson
     
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  • Ralph Richardson Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.
    Ralph Richardson
    English actor (1902 - 1983)
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