Acting Quotes (page 147)

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• play
• analyze
• analyzing

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting. Holliday Grainger

• noun
• acts
• theater

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. Martha Graham

• inspirational
• faith
• perfect

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. Martha Graham

• job
• age
• reality

It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV. Lauren Graham

• leaving
• contentment
• being content

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. Baltasar Gracian

• song
• dance
• enough

I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents. Betty Grable

• best
• change
• light

I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.' Elliott Gould

• real life
• father
• look

The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather. Victoria Gotti

• life
• doing
• one act

I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life. Ryan Gosling

• firsts
• firstly
• two

We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act. Eydie Gorme

• people
• new start
• new

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

• french
• poetry
• history

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

• humanity
• communication
• fire

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

• reading
• creativity
• writing

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. Nadine Gordimer

• boys
• lazy
• sitting

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act. John Goodman