“I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.” GoalRealizingLinesWalksActingCorruptionAccomplishTestifying Author:William J. Clinton
“My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.” YearsFirstsStillsHelpingShowsLinesActingFourAdviceTvsTenToughHollywoodCoachingTv ShowsMovie Sets Author:Michael Pena
“I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.” IfsKnowsKindI CanLinesActingKnowingEasierReactionsReacting Author:Stephen Root
“I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition, I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.” TryingLinesActingStepsAudienceEffectsStageMonthsPerformancesTheaterImprovementRepetitionReciting Author:Alfred Molina
“Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.” PeopleThinkingLinesActingCasesStudyStyleTechniqueMediums Author:Anthony Mackie
“When you suppress your true feelings or follow a path that isn’t really yours, you aren’t living your authentic self. Your soul made a plan for this life before you incarnated, and that plan is your true life purpose. Acting in line with your life purpose is one way to live in the light, another step on the path toward expanded consciousness.” WayMadeSoulSelfFeelingsLightPurposeLinesActingConsciousnessStepsPathPlansOne WayThis LifeYour SoulPurpose Of LifeWay To LiveAuthentic SelfTrue LifeTrue Feelings Author:Deborah King
“I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false.” CertainGoalLinesWalksActingResponseAccomplishTestifying Author:Monica Lewinsky
“The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.” HeartRealActorsLinesActingDirectCollectives Author:Sam Rayburn
“In the theater, you're so much more in charge as an actor. For better or for worse, you know what the audience is seeing. But you can be acting your socks off on film, and then you see the movie, and the camera is on the other actor, or they've cut out the lines you thought were significant, or they've adjusted the plot. So much of it is out of your control.” KnowsFilmActorsLinesActingAudienceCuttingSeeingTheaterCamerasSignificantPlotSock Author:Susan Sarandon
“The real challenge in acting is in comedy. It's easier to get that gasp in a drama. Not easy, because you still have to find that emotional pitch. And when you do something in drama and you hear that sob from the audience it's so fulfilling. But as a comic actor, when the laugh is supposed to come and you punch in that line and nothing happens it is dreadful. It's horrific and you feel like dying right there.” FeelsStillsRealHappensActorsEasyChallengesLinesActingAudienceLaughingComedyDyingEmotionalEasierDramaThings HappenComicFulfillingHorrificFeel Like Dying Author:George Takei
“Politicians are really getting desperate. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a final fundraising email to Democrats with the subject line, 'I'm begging.' Because what better way to show you're a strong leader than acting like you're drunk and dialing your ex?” WayFactsShowsStrongLinesActingLeaderSubjectsLike YouPoliticianMajorityDemocratFinalsDrunkDesperateSenateEmailExesBetter WaysBeggingFundraisingStrong LeadersYour ExMajority Leader Author:Jimmy Fallon
“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.” LooksDifferentDoneActionVoiceLinesActingEmotionHairToolsInstrumentsSellsDespiseVocalVoice Acting Author:Felicia Day
“Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindMeanHardBigsLinesDealsActingBig Deal Author:Ryan Gosling
“I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.” ChildrenDoneFunNaturalLinesActingStandingHaving FunStanding There Author:Vinessa Shaw
“For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.” TryingEndsLinesActingRiskBecomingSeriesImpressionPresentationBecoming MoreOne Line Author:Ken Stott
“In the retail business, many people are too consumed with the bottom line. How much am I going to be selling? Am I going to be able to do all the things I need to get done? Instead, if they are at peace and feeling good about themselves - if they are treating customers with love and acting as statesmen and stateswomen and people who are connected to God in a spiritual sense - then every day for them is a real joy.” PeopleIfsNeedsRealDoneFeelingsAbleSpiritualJoyLinesActingBottomConnectedCustomersSellingFeel GoodBottom LineConsumedStatesmenRetailReal JoyRetail Business Author:Wayne Dyer
“Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any difference whether Shakespeare or Bacon wrote it? Would it make any difference to the actors if their parts happened out of nothingness, if they found themselves acting on the stage because of some gross and unpardonable accident? Would it make any difference if the playwright gave them the lines or whether they composed them themselves, so long as the lines were properly spoken? Would it make any difference to the characters if 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' was really a dream?” IfsLongDoePlayCharacterGodDreamNightActorsFoundDifferencesLinesActingHappenedStageBraveAccidentsNothingnessGrossPlaywrightAuthorshipMidsummerMidsummer Night's Dream Author:Lewis Mumford
“The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.” YearsHumansHeartMayMeanLongArtPurposeActorsEnergyStrongEasyLinesEffortActingMastersConstitutionTheaterExcellenceInstinctTheatreTechniqueFeaturesCharmRequirementsConquestAssuranceSimplestDiligent Author:Julia Marlowe
“I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.” Has BeensLinesActingDirectorsNervous Author:Rose McGowan
“I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.” ActorsGrowthLinesWhiteActingDyingMouthsWingsDancerForgiven Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.” LinesActingRhythm Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey. The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.” TryingHumansEndsJobsCoursesActorsCan DoLinesActingSituationJourneyDivineSkillsProfoundTelling The TruthMapsScreenwriters Author:Paul Greengrass
“I feel like you have to pull from some personal experiences [to acting]. At least that's how I work sometimes. It's just easier that way. And I try it as best as I can and kind of dissolve myself and become a character, not me, or just blur the lines.” WayFeelsTryingKindI CanSometimesCharacterLinesActingLike YouEasierPersonal ExperiencesBlur Author:Michael B. Jordan
“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.” PeopleTryingBelieveDifferentSometimesReasonWholeActionMovingLinesActingFrontsThousandQuietTenRingsIntimacyIntimateWrestlingGoing OutAdrenalineInside And Outside Author:Dave Bautista
“I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even when I'm offered work, I always want small parts. When it comes to things that other people have written, I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm terrible at memorizing a script and reading lines. I get confused and I don't understand and it just looks fake to me. It's more difficult for me to be creative that way.” PeopleKnowsWayWantLooksReadingDifficultLinesActingCareersCreativeWrittenDoorsTerribleScriptsFakeAgencyConfusedAmbitiousBe CreativeBreaking DownSmall PartsMemorizingHeadshots Author:Amy Sedaris
“It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things, along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.” IfsWayWantArtTwoDreamFallSportsParentSidesLinesActingFineFollowingYour DreamsTwo ThingsFollow Your DreamsFall BackFine Lines Author:Kaley Cuoco