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“When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”

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Book:The Works of Anatole France in English: My friend's book

Source: The Works of Anatole France in English: My friend's book

“To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.”

Ifs Action Happiness Next Acting Failure Substitutes Next Time

Author:Smiley Blanton

“Never confuse motion with action.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves.”

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Book:The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work: Easyread Edition

Source: The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work: Easyread Edition

“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.”

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Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.”

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Author:Anna Brackett

“Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?”

Action Universe Acting Journey Listening Listen To Me

Author:Steve Jobs

“Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.”

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Book:Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”

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Author:Indira Gandhi

“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.”

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.”

“From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!”

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Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he loses his moral sense. Instead, it acquires a radically different focus. He does not respond with a moral sentiment to the actions he performs. Rather, his moral concern now shifts to a consideration of how well he is living up to the expectations that the authority has of him.”

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Author:Stanley Milgram

“Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the Final Solution of genocide. This is not to remove the responsibility from Hitler and the Nazis, but there is much evidence that Germany's anti-Semitic actions, cruel as they were, would not have turned to mass murder were it not for the psychic distortions of war, acting on already distorted minds. Hitler's early aim was forced emigration, not extermination, but the frenzy of it created an atmosphere in which the policy turned to genocide.”

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which their actions resolve. About-to-act is an interesting state to experience, because I am conscious of just those tensions. Acting itself feels fairly dull; it not only resolves, it obliterates those tensions from my consciousness. Acting is only interesting as it leads to new tensions that, irrelevantly, cause me to act again.”

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Book:Dhalgren

Source: Dhalgren

“A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead issues insincerely painted as real and vital. It should not in the several States as well as in the Nation be prostituted to the service of the baser type of political boss. It should be so composed that there should be a reasonable agreement in the actions taken by it both in the Nation and in the several States. Judged by these standards, both of the old parties break down.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“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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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.”

Feels Mean Littles Character Able Action Success Acting Encouragement Little Things

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.”

Love Needs Action Acting Trust What You Love Secret Love Trust No One Love And Trust Trust Issues I Trust You Trust Love Mutual Trust

Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.”

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Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument. Doing voice work is also great because you don't have to get your hair done, which I despise.”

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Author:Felicia Day

“For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”

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Book:Mary Kay

Source: Mary Kay

“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”

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Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.”

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Author:Clive Owen

“Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.”

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Author:Donnie Yen

“The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.”

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Author:Francesco Guicciardini

“I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.”

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Author:Vinnie Jones

“Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.”

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Author:Brian J. White

“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.”

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Author:Andy Serkis

“A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of the characters. A screenplay is 120 pages, and it's all dialogue and action. The pacing of films is different, the structure is often different, and the internal lives of the characters must come across through the acting. Movies are just a different experience than reading - so it just depends on what an individual prefers.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions. The English ought to give up their notorious violations of the unities, and all their massacres, racks, dead bodies, and mangled carcasses, which they so frequently exhibit upon their stage. The French should engage to have more action, and less declamation, and not to cram and to crowd things together to almost a degree of impossibility from a too scrupulous adherence to the unities.”

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you're trying to go against the grain.”

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Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I approach every film I do in the same way, whether it's an action film or not an action film. I guess if a certain physicality lends itself to action, but I started acting before I reached puberty. I was 7 years old when I started acting. It wasn't until I became a bouncer in New York.”

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Author:Vin Diesel

“In wrestling there are so many people inside and outside the ring, and it's so live, and it's this whole adrenaline thing. Whereas you move it into this more intimate thing, everything gets all quiet, someone says action, and you have to say the lines and make the words your own. It couldn't be any more different and it's weird sometimes trying to explain that to people. When I tell people that acting is much more terrifying to me than going out in front of ten thousand people, they don't quite believe it because for some reason that intimacy is just terrifying to me.”

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Author:Dave Bautista

“I love comedy. I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way. I did a lot of acting, funnily enough, unprofessionally, as a kid. From when I was 10 years old until I was about 19, I was always doing little sketches with my friends, and doing different accents and voices. Probably about 3/4 of those were comedic, in some way, and the other 1/4 was more serious stuff or more action or more dramatic little pieces that I would make. But, I tend to lean towards comedy.”

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Author:Sharlto Copley

“Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.”

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Author:Jackie Chan

“The environment forces you to be utterly dependent between "action" and "cut" because the environment is perfect on your fellow actor. So as an acting exercise, it's absolutely thrilling that the focus that we had to bring to each other echoed in life, echoed in art. And when you get that parallel, it's really thrilling and it's full of surprises, but it all has a logic.”

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Author:Ben Kingsley

“Meditation is the action of silence.”

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Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.”

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Author:Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

“For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.”

“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”

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Book:Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”

Source: Become Your Best

“While voicing animations I use the same acting muscles, even more because you have to channel all into your voice, whereas when you're live-action you get props and scenery and other actors and your facial expressions and what happens to help you. It's not necessarily easier as an actor to do voice-overs, it's easier as a person.”

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Author:Kathy Najimy

“In acting you do a lot of research. Audience watch Jet Li because of the fight. They watch other actors because they are funny. If they want funny, they don't want to see Jet Li, they watch the other guy. That's the reality I face, until the one day I can prove I can make film without action that is a fun movie. Then everybody will say Jet Li, hmmm.”

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Author:Jet Li