Acting Quotes

• "Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised."
  By: Roger Moore
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• "I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me."
  By: Mary Tyler Moore
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• "This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it."
  By: Robert Mitchum
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• "After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be."
  By: Frances McDormand
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• "We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?""
  By: Micheal Macliammoir
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• "People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?"
  By: Juliette Lewis
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• "The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."
  By: Daniel Day Lewis
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• "I don't do T & A very well because I haven't got much of either."
  By: Téa Leoni
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• "I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with."
  By: Lucy Lawless
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• "I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!"
  By: Angela Lansbury
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• "I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving."
  By: Kevin Kline
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• "Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of "artistic" expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb."
  By: Patrick Kavanagh
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• "An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make."
  By: Alva Johnson
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• "I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."
  By: Elton John
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• "I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. [On being an actor]"
  By: Harrison Ford
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• "Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. [On his acting techniques]"
  By: Vincent D'Onofrio
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