Michael Ealy Quotes
I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.
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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'm more interested in producing than acting.
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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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.
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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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.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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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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You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
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If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.
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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
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I love actors.
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Acting has never excited me.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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Too much information is rather deadening.
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The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.
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I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.
