Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.
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Related You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad... MEGAN MCCAFFERTY Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way. EDIE MCCLURG An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in... RALPH WALDO EMERSON An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I l... JOAN CHEN Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up... KEVIN HART I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who m... GUCCI MANE It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie... GEORGE CLOONEY Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive. BO BENNETT Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration. DEBRA WINGER Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This i... SUSAN ORLEAN All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the indiv... ANNA C. BRACKETT In my opinion, if you want to pursue an art, especially acting, you have to be really perceptive of ... RITA VOLK Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing esse... EDGAR ALLAN POE Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. UNKNOWN Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book rea... W.H. AUDEN There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a madman. GEORGE ORWELL How can people be made happy in a petty kingdom? What peace can we expect from a rascal friend? What... CHANAKYA For every good person that comes from Brooklyn or the Bronx, there are some bad people who bring the... CURTIS SLIWA I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me fee... MADONNA He's got all of these acting chops from working undercover. The stakes there are really high. If you... GARY HUGGINS The good thing about bad news is that it reaches in the last to the person it is about. WOHI PURANA It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well. ANDREW SEAN GREER When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dol... TOBY KEITH There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establ... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad t... RAINBOW ROWELL How can anything bad come out of love? The bad stuff comes out of mistrust, misunderstanding, and Go... ELIZABETH TAYLOR [Pauline Kael never forgave Clint Eastwood for that statement or for making Dirty Harr y, and she wa... DIRTY HARRY I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and suck... LOIS TILTON What kind of a world do we live in, when the good are taken advantage of by the bad, while the bad h... C. JOYBELL C. Bad music is a form of murder to the true art of music in general.Bad music forced on a child is abu... COREY TAYLOR Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting. LEE DANIELS ...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them. JOHN GREEN Good judgment comes from bad experience. Unfortunately, most of that comes from bad judgment. <... JILL SHALVIS There is real possibilities that, in future, to like own status or photos on Facebook would be inclu... DR HITESH C SHETH I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things. STANA KATIC I've never seen Dawn in a bad mood. What I like best is that you cannot tell what kind of game she's... BETH DUNKENBERGER Too many things in too small a space cut off flow, block creativity, and bury beauty, much like a ba... LAURA STALEY One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed c... JEFF COOPER The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting. ANTHONY HOPKINS I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me. So, I gave it a ... LAURA SAN GIACOMO What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it ge... CRISS JAMI The core issue in monotheism is righteousness/wickedness. Righteous/wicked qualifies a person ... HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood. STEVE SCHIRRIPA France, land of human rights and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: ... MARINE LE PEN All things are pure in essense,
because almost anything can be
use with "good" or "bad intention". DETECTIVE DAVID LOVE To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay ... JEAN PIAGET This past winter started off in December looking bad. Everyone was thinking it would be a real bad w... BOB HIGGINS Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. WILL ROGERS For me, I need to be able to show up on set and fart around and goof around. If I can have that, whe... BETSY BRANDT You want to be bad, angel? I can teach you every position it comes in DEBRA ANASTASIA Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of ... KAREN ALLEN Shirking and sharking, in all their many varieties, have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause;... CHARLES DICKENS Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had ... PIPER LAURIE To be honest, there are so many things I learned in acting school beyond the method; it was a safe p... JANE LEVY I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry... MANUEL PUIG A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad t... DENNIS POTTER If my life were still a movie, this is the part that would end up on the cutting room floor. We were... CHARLES MARTIN By the fourth or fifth take, I had gotten over the 'Oh my God, it's a Stanley Kubrick movie&... THOMAS GIBSON I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It... KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS Babies should be classified as an antidepressant. It's pretty hard to be in a bad mood around a ... JIM GAFFIGAN Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind... KAREN ALLEN Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that th... WALTER PATER Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain. PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alch... ELIZABETH WURTZEL You're living your life the entire time in both worlds - it's not like they say, 'Action... LUCAS HEDGES We're getting some very bad decisions and some very bad findings from the appeals board ... I think ... GREGORY HARDCASTLE The way the bad news from Deutsche has been handled by the market shows we're not in bad shape right... LEX WERKHEIM I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don&... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I guess I just feel bad that I'm still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marri... LAURA KIGHTLINGER That's another reason I love New York. Just like that, it can go from bad to cute. SARAH JESSICA PARKER A man who loves a bad name cares less about the future of his great grand children. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, th... ERNEST HEMINGWAY A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principle... A. R. AMMONS If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft.... OLGA KURYLENKO The world was a bad joke dreamed up by the Almighty on an off-day. I've always felt myself that he p... JACK HIGGINS In the 101st Airborne Division headquarters in Mosul, we had a sign on the wall. It was a question t... DAVID PETRAEUS What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c... DONNA TARTT If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk. HIPPOCRATES This certainly steals an acting style that was used in the clubs in Munich in 1900 and picked up by ... LEE BREUER Too many people in public believe that once we rescue children from bad situations and bad families,... MARSHA LOWRY When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen. CATHY FREEMAN If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you mu... LEWIS TAPPAN The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habi... STEVEN PRESSFIELD Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that... EMILY MORTIMER A well constructed plot should, therefore, be single in its issue, rather than double as some mainta... ARISTOTLE October is not all that bad, but there have been some eye-catching examples that have fed the folklo... RICHARD MCCABE Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around. BILL WATTERSON Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. ANTHONY HOPKINS Well, I don't necessarily like playing the villain. I'd much rather be the guy who rides off into th... MICHAEL MADSEN We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in b... BARBARA DEMING I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a ... NEIL GAIMAN The Complexities Of Life Caused By Bad Government Leaderships And Parental Mistakes Can Make A Child... BABA TUNDE OJO-OLUBIYO The Complexities Of Life Caused By Bad Government Administration, Leadership, Parental Abuse And Mis... BABA TUNDE OJO-OLUBIYO Molly stood up. You made an error! She felt like saying. A bad throw. So what? It's a baseball game.... MICK COCHRANE At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, becau... CATHERINE HICKS People still have a bad taste in their mouths from the first time they did this. I can't go through ... CARL ARCHEY
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Lean s... DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR) Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head
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JAMES ALLEN A man is literally what he thinks. JAMES ALLEN The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ... JAMES ALLEN The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y... JAMES ALLEN I am just happy to be part of the Nike family. LEBRON JAMES There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I p... LEBRON JAMES I'm confident with my ability. LEBRON JAMES Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and l... LEBRON JAMES But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the ... LEBRON JAMES There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly w... LEBRON JAMES Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you h... LEBRON JAMES Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself. LEBRON JAMES When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable. LEBRON JAMES I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed. LEBRON JAMES I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it. LEBRON JAMES Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it... JAMES DENTON There's nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone. LILY JAMES Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place ... JAMES TAYLOR I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball. LEBRON JAMES I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop. JAMES THOMSON It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up... JAMES ALTUCHER The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interes... JAMES MCBRIDE The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch. JAMES MCBRIDE In a way, light unites the spiritual world and the ephemeral, physical world. People frequently talk... JAMES TURRELL I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that th... THEO JAMES The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to s... JAMES LARKIN Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Six... JAMES WAN