Top acting Quotes Collection - Page 9

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Image of Tom Hiddleston
Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.
- Tom Hiddleston
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Image of Ken Kesey
I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
- Ken Kesey
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Image of Lauren Bacall
Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom
- Lauren Bacall
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Image of Wilhelm von Humboldt
The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Image of Aya Cash
Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.
- Aya Cash
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Image of Michael Jackson
I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.
- Michael Jackson
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Image of Lauren Hutton
I wanted to be a lot of things. There were a million things I wanted to do. I still do. Acting is one of the good ways of doing it you know, because you can be all those things.
- Lauren Hutton
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Image of Sherrilyn Kenyon
The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Image of Charlie Hunnam
Acting is never really effortless, at least not for me. It requires a massive amount of work. But, there's definitely an added level of having to just create the whole thing again, every time. It's also a very exciting thing, to do that.
- Charlie Hunnam
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Image of Charlie Hunnam
In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing
- Charlie Hunnam
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Image of James Earl Jones
I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.
- James Earl Jones
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Image of Diane Keaton
I don't want to watch [films I was acting in]. I've had enough of me.
- Diane Keaton
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Image of Jon Bon Jovi
I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.
- Jon Bon Jovi
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Image of Amy Adams
I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really.
- Amy Adams
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Image of Mick Jagger
Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.
- Mick Jagger
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Image of Anthony Jeselnik
I'm interested in doing some acting in the future, but it's a distant second to stand up.
- Anthony Jeselnik
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Image of Diane Keaton
acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors.
- Diane Keaton
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Image of Rush Limbaugh
Even though Donald Trump has won, even though Hillary Clinton has been vanquished, even though the left has suffered defeat after defeat after defeat, the Drive-By Media is still there, and they're still acting as they always do. They are setting the agenda. They are setting the narrative, establishing it, and they are determining what everybody talks about.
- Rush Limbaugh
Collection: Acting
Image of Jude Law
Landing a role now is not based on my looks - more on my acting ability.
- Jude Law
Collection: Acting
Image of Lenny Kravitz
It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work.
- Lenny Kravitz
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Image of Val Kilmer
I love acting, and doing it well matters to me.
- Val Kilmer
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Image of Tallulah Bankhead
I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.
- Tallulah Bankhead
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Image of Ang Lee
Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more.
- Ang Lee
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Image of Mike Leigh
The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.
- Mike Leigh
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Image of John Leguizamo
I'm not really against a lot of things unless they are just pure exploitation and then they create their own copycat culture that comes from someone acting irresponsibly. That's dangerous when that happens.
- John Leguizamo
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Image of John Leguizamo
Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.
- John Leguizamo
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Image of Charles Lamb
Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
- Charles Lamb
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Image of Mike Leigh
The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.
- Mike Leigh
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Image of Frank Langella
When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."
- Frank Langella
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Image of Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
The power and depth of Japanese acting certainly inspired me, so I was determined that Hollywood was going to get a taste of that, that Americans were going to get a taste of Japanese action.
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
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Image of Christian Bale
I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that's precisely why I like acting.
- Christian Bale
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Image of Jay Leno
French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly.
- Jay Leno
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Image of Taryn Manning
As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.
- Taryn Manning
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Image of William H. Macy
What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting. It's all the same. Seventy-five percent of the skills are the same in both media.
- William H. Macy
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Image of Nelson Mandela
We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.
- Nelson Mandela
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Image of Ludacris
We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing music videos. We're acting out our own thoughts and what we've written down on paper.
- Ludacris
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Image of Eva Longoria
I won a scholarship to come to LA and compete in a modeling and talent completion and was amazed when I won it. I had never acted before in my life and won the acting category. I began to wonder what this is about and then decided to see what happened.
- Eva Longoria
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Image of Maxwell Maltz
Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'
- Maxwell Maltz
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Image of Ewan McGregor
I've never worked with an acting coach, no.
- Ewan McGregor
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Image of Philip Massinger
This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.
- Philip Massinger
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Image of Max Lucado
Though you see nothing, he is acting.
- Max Lucado
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Image of David Mamet
You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.
- David Mamet
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Image of Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what’s the use of seeing?
- Nhat Hanh
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Image of Steve Jobs
Listen to me. We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?
- Steve Jobs
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Image of Sanford Meisner
Acting is not talking, it’s living off the other fellow!!!
- Sanford Meisner
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Image of Indira Gandhi
Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
- Indira Gandhi
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Image of Deepak Chopra
Everyone is acting from his own level of consciousness. This is all we can ask of ourselves or anyone else. However hurtful someone is, he is doing the best he can, given the limits of his consciousness.
- Deepak Chopra
Collection: Acting