#acting

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#always #genuine #go #god #i

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors. ↗

— James Denton

#because #directors #experience #got #helped

Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium. ↗

— James Denton

#matter #medium #real #realistic

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#amount #any #certain #just #lying

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#being #consciousness #enter #greater #i

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#ago #although #been #behind #biggest

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#goal #got #high #high school #i

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

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Acting for me is not that quid pro quo. ↗

— Tom Wilkinson

#me #pro #quid #quo