Katharine Cornell Quotes
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I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.
Laura San Giacomo -
I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
Caity Lotz -
I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
Patrick Fugit -
I'm more interested in producing than acting.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
Carice van Houten -
I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
Mara Wilson
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
Sam Shepard -
My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
Hansika Motwani -
I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
Ted Turner -
When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
Rachel Ward -
I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
Fiona Gubelmann
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
Edie McClurg -
I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
Mahershala Ali -
I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
Victor Mature -
Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
Oprah Winfrey -
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Washington Irving -
I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.
Patrick Schwarzenegger
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I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.
Kara Hayward -
I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.
Walter Kirn -
I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.
Sam Rockwell -
I'm a big fan of all the great movie devils, from Walter Huston to Ray Walston to Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson.
Ray Wise -
I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.
Amber Hollibaugh -
A flair for publicity does not necessarily mean a flair for acting.
Katharine Cornell