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Acting Quotes

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"If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing."
Ingrid Bergman
"If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing."
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"At this point I have no interest in returning to wrestling. I am pursuing my acting career. But I never say never. I enjoyed the three years I was in the wrestling industry."
Rita Mero
"At this point I have no interest in returning to wrestling. I am pursuing my acting career. But I never say never. I enjoyed the three years I was in the wrestling industry."
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"Acting is a way of living out one's insanity."
Isabelle Huppert
"Acting is a way of living out one's insanity."
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"The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting."
"The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting."
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"To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before."
Jessica Lange
"To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before."
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"It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting."
Judy Holliday
"It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting."
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"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."
Dinah Sheridan
"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."
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"I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do."
Ralph Fiennes
"I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do."
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"As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director."
Joan Chen
"As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director."
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"I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher."
Mark Ruffalo
"I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher."
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"I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue."
Tina Yothers
"I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue."
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"All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents."
Joan Chen
"All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents."
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"One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career."
Mercedes McCambridge
"One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career."
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"I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage."
Micky Dolenz
"I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage."
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"I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing."
Gregory Harrison
"I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing."
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"The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting."
Jessamyn West
"The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting."
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"Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else."
Nikki Cox
"Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else."
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"As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting."
Stanley Tucci
"As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting."
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"I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it."
Rachel Dratch
"I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it."
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"With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting."
David Morse
"With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting."
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"There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels."
Pearl White
"There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels."
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"You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera."
Nicholas Lea
"You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera."
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"The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living."
Christopher Walken
"The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living."
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"Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven."
Salma Hayek
"Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven."
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"Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro."
Billy Crystal
"Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro."
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"One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role."
Hayden Christensen
"One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role."
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"I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that."
Catherine Bell
"I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that."
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"Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer."
Brigitte Bardot
"Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer."
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"I didn't study acting."
Ray Walston
"I didn't study acting."
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"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."
Stephen Rea
"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."
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"I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working."
Kirstie Alley
"I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working."
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"Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it."
Elaine Dundy
"Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it."
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"The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself."
Tom Cruise
"The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself."
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"So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me."
Dustin Hoffman
"So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me."
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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
"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."
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"I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me."
Tatum O'Neal
"I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me."
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"The only thing I like about being an actress is acting."
Elizabeth Ashley
"The only thing I like about being an actress is acting."
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"Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film."
Ted Shackelford
"Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film."
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"I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself."
Bobby Darin
"I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself."
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"Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare."
Zhang Ziyi
"Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare."
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"There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors."
Debra Wilson
"There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors."
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"My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."
John Hurt
"My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."
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"I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game."
Kevin Bacon
"I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game."
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"I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada."
David Ginola
"I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada."
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"I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting."
Ben Kingsley
"I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting."
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"I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be."
Leonardo DiCaprio
"I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be."
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"Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession."
Edie McClurg
"Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession."
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"I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary."
Peter Jurasik
"I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary."
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"It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with."
Ivan Reitman
"It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with."
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"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."
Will Durant
"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."
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