Quotes on acting
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
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Unknown Author Quotes
I can see clearly now, that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
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Richard M. Nixon Quotes
I think a cute movie idea would be about a parrot who is raised by eagles. It would be cute because the parrot can't seem to act like an eagle. After a while, though, to keep the movie from getting boring, maybe put in some pornography. Later, we see the happy parrot flying along, acting like an eagle. He see two parrots below and starts to attack, but it's his parents. Then, some more pornography.
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Jack Handey Quotes
Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice.
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Unknown Author Quotes
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.
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Wayne Dyer Quotes
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Unknown Author Quotes
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must lay it down and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.
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Ralph Richardson Quotes
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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Unknown Author Quotes
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
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.
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Cynthia Heimel Quotes
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
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Paul Newman Quotes
Acting childish seems to come naturally, but acting like an adult, no matter how old we are, just doesn't come easy to us.
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Edith Ann Quotes
A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
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Albert Pike Quotes
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
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Glenda Jackson Quotes
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
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Marlon Brando Quotes
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Comedy is acting out optimism.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
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Sir Laurence Olivier Quotes
The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part.
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Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
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Unknown Author Quotes
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
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Uta Hagan Quotes
Our marriage was built on mutual trust and a lot of acting ability.
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Unknown Author Quotes
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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William Hazlitt Quotes