Acting Quotes

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But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day — Joni Mitchell
Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force... it moves in… — Prentice Mulford
I went to school, majored in theatre, and said 'Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an actor.' A couple… — Arsenio Hall
Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your pushed her off… — Dave Barry
I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night,… — Elaine Dundy
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… — Glenda Jackson
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules. — Glenn Close
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. — Jane Fonda
I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying… — Laurence Olivier
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. — Marlon Brando
Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow… — Noel Coward
You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on… — Noel Coward
It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting. — David Spangler
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort. — Ayn Rand
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. — Charles Horton Cooley
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action. — Laozi
The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it. — Confucius
To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way… — Warren G. Bennis
You can't change who you are but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought act on it. — Emma Bunton
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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