Acting Quotes

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I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater. — Alicia Keys
Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint. — Common
I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician. — Alicia Keys
What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every way from whom… — Alicia Keys
Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you can express that… — Common
Music kept me sane between acting jobs. — Chris Carmack
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. — Horace
I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the… — Richard E. Grant
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. — William Shakespeare
Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace. — William Shakespeare
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach. — Alexander Pope
There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. — Alexander Pope
Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear. — Carly Fiorina
Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering… — Sophia Loren
Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as… — John Ruskin
It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This… — Shunryu Suzuki
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. — Charles Darwin
Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone. — Shelley Winters
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip. — Paulo Coelho
This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew. — Philip Massinger
Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you… — Pema Chodron
We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last. — Pema Chodron
Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual. — Ludwig von Mises
Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to… — Ludwig von Mises
All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and… — Karl Barth

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