Acting Quotes
4873 Acting quotes by 2890 unique authors
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It's not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It's just that you know the person better, and you know they don't…
— Markus Zusak
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Be so good they can't ignore you.
— Steve Martin
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And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I…
— Robert James Waller
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As we drew near to the gates of Dother Hall the old bell in the belfry rang out. I said, 'I must go in, it's…
— Louise Rennison
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I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs,…
— Veronica Roth
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Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no…
— Angela Carter
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Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and…
— Tom Hiddleston
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.
— Dan Millman
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Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.
— Sidney Poitier
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Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and…
— Anton Chekhov
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It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
— Miles Davis
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it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear
— Veronica Roth
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Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn’t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where everyone has their…
— Richard Siken
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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
— Unknown Author
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What was I afraid of, exactly? What other people would think? I guess, a little. But that wasn't what was stopping me from acting on…
— Julie Anne Peters
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Acting like you don’t care is a whole lot easier when you don’t care
— Ally Carter
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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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But now I give in, let the anger surge. I'm sick of people acting like this world, this other world is the normal one, while…
— Lauren Oliver
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Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic." "That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They…
— Veronica Roth
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You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.
— Sarah Dessen
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I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it…
— Ned Vizzini
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A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of…
— Enid Blyton
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The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17). You have…
— Boyd K. Packer
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I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.
— Veronica Roth
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