A Quotes
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“Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.”
“Acting's fun, but life's more important”
“Acting's more of a business for me now.”
“Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.”
“Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.”
“Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.”
“Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.”
“Acting, films, scripts, is literally the only thing I’m 100 percent confident in. I know what I’m doing. I just understand it, and I love it. When I’m on set, that’s when I feel the most at home and in control.”
“Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.”
“Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?”
“Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.”
“Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age.”
“Acting, is not a profession for adults.”
“Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.”
“Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.”
“Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.”
“Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.”
“Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.”
“Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.”
“Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.”
“Acting-wise, I've had all these experiences. Yet when I look at certain people whose careers I admire, they've gotten to play so many different characters. So it's just that - getting to have more of these singular little adventures where you get to be a part of a completely different world.”
“Acting. Whenever I am playing a character, I use my real life experiences, which puts me on the line of reliving some of those good and bad times. Acting requires risk, and that's what feeling vulnerable is.”
“Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.”
“Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.”
“Action achieves ambition.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Action achieves more than words.”
“Action, action”
“Action alone doesnt work in Germany - you need an emotional element to the story.”
“Action alone is often useless unless coupled with understanding.”
Source: Calamity at Conclave
“Action always beats inaction.”
“Action and adaptability create opportunity.”
“Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read!”
“Action and becoming are one.”
“Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.”
“Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.”
Source: Paine's Complete Works ...
“Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.”
Source: Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum
“Action and flexibility create opportunity”
“Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.”
“Action and reaction are equal and opposite, and are expressed simultaneously. Sequentially they are repeated in reverse, the reaction becoming the action and the action the reaction.”
“Action and reaction are equal and opposite.”
Source: A Stein Reader
“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.”
“Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is karma. Action that arises out of a state of "acceptance" is totally free of karma. And there is a vast difference.”
“Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.”
Source: Coyote Blue: A Novel
“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.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“Action based only on principles isnt always good even if it feels good.”
“Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.”
“Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.”
“Action can only be understood in relation to place; only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in terms of consequence, of cause and effect. The meaning of action in time is inseparable from its meaning in place.”
Source: Standing by Words: Essays
“Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.”