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“Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.”

Long I Can Able Acting Havens Long Time Opposites

Author:Tammin Sursok

“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 you normally are, the person that you are when you wake up in the morning is who you are in your life. But to take that and have the opportunity to be the complete opposite of that, is the excitement of it.”

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Author:Alicia Keys

“We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.”

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Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.”

World Feels Ends Acting Emotion Seeing Opposites Journalism Realization Discourse End Of The World

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.”

People Ifs Knows Men Needs Ends Certain Acting Nice Like You Opposites Legacy Extras Being Nice Stereotype Backwards Bending Man Hater Bending Over

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“When I got the job I thought about her a lot. Not only was I getting a great job in a really good movie, but it was with Lindsay Lohan. She's so famous and I don't have any of that, I have never experienced that kind of intense scrutiny that she's under, so of course I wondered what it would be like acting opposite her. I can tell you that it's like being with The Beatles. You cannot fathom the kind of attention she gets. It's mind boogling.”

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Author:Chris Pine

“Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.”

People Kind Sometimes Play Character Acting Like You Opposites

Author:Dakota Fanning

“When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.”

School Left Acting Drama Opposites Stuck Comic Pigeons

Author:Rufus Sewell

“When I started acting, I was asked said, 'What's your dream?' 'What would you like to achieve?' I would say, 'Oh, I'd like to sit opposite DeNiro and hold my own.' But, you never think it's gonna happen.”

Thinking Said Dream Happens My Own Acting Achieve Opposites Your Dreams

Author:Sharon Stone

“One can't allow blind loyalty to a friendship to lead one away from acting in the public interest. If Martin [Schulz] were to propose something that was totally absurd, our friendship would not prevent me from doing the opposite.”

Ifs Interest Acting Opposites Blind Loyalty Absurd Propose Public Interest

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!”

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

“Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.”

Should Motivation Acting Scene Opposites

Book:Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

Source: Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

“Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.”

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Author:Michael Shurtleff

“In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures...In any true piece of art...the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section.”

“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.”

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Author:Franz Kafka