#acting

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play. ↗

— Sam Shepard

#did #doing #earn #end #everything

There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels. ↗

— Pearl White

#race #serial #simply #through #you

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#almost #blunt #causes #combined #discriminating

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

#afraid #any #back #been #clearer

I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer. ↗

— Teresa Wright

#acting #acting ability #any #argued #attribute

On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychiatry - there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my career anywhere my dream needs to go. ↗

— Samantha Steele

#author #books #crazy #dream #follow

It's a living, breathing thing, acting. ↗

— Frank Langella

#breathing #breathing thing #living #thing

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second. ↗

— Danny Masterson

#ball player #being #could #dollars #i

Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#already #become #blows #business #fine

A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific. ↗

— Nick Mancuso

#ago #also #did #few #film