Sandra Bullock Quotes
The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.
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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.
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I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
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Well, my brother started acting before I did.
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
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Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.
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Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
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I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
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I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.
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More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
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I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.
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If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].
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Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.
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The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.
