1,862 Quotes About Acting



  • Author Sarah Bernhardt
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    I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

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  • Author Scott Bleier
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    The market is acting like we were just coming out of a recession. It's about as tough and confusing on a day-to-day basis because of all this rotation. The market is looking past the (economic) slowdown, past the (presidential) election and out to the first quarter of 2001.

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  • Author Scott Bleier
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    The market is acting like we were just coming out of a recession, ... It's about as tough and confusing on a day-to-day basis because of all this rotation. The market is looking past the (economic) slowdown, past the (presidential) election and out to the first quarter of 2001.

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  • Author Shirley Booth
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    Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

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  • Author Stanley Burrell
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    Everyone was sitting around acting like we blew it. Everybody was like, 'Oh my God. We blew our opportunity to win.' But I looked at the guys and said, 'Come on, we have to stay with it. There's no way we come this far to have them take it from us.' We knew our game plan was going to pull us through. That's what happened.

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  • Author Steve Buscemi
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    I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.'

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