#acting

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul. ↗

— Ava Gardner

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Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia. ↗

— Vittorio Gassman

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I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer. ↗

— Melissa George

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My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer. ↗

— Robert Guillaume

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I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself. ↗

— Lukas Haas

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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone. ↗

— Larry Hagman

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I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in. ↗

— Elizabeth Debicki

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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. ↗

— James Dean

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I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

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In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with. ↗

— Bruce Dern

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