Quotes with acting

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  • Bill Simmons The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Caitriona Balfe The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.
    Caitriona Balfe
    Irish actress, producer and former (1979 - )
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  • Glenda Jackson The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life.
    Glenda Jackson
    British actress and politician (1936 - 2023)
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  • Carson Daly The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Cab Calloway The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Campbell Scott The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Ben Whishaw The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Ben Whishaw The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Benjamin Bratt The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Brit Marling Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Beth Henley Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Bill Hunter There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.
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  • Beatrice Wood 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.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 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
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Buddy Wakefield This poem may have meant nothing to you but I am confident that tonight my taking the time to actually write out my anger instead of acting on it has saved the life of at least eleven people in parking enforcement.
    Poetry Flare Guns and Earthquakes
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Bernardine Dohrn Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.
    Bernardine Dohrn
    American law professor and activist
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  • Brigitte Bardot Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Thomas Wolfe We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Omar N. Bradley We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
    Omar N. Bradley
    American general (1893 - 1981)
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  • Barbara Deming We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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