Michael Pena Quotes
I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of the year and act for about two months. I would make what I needed from acting and would stretch it out.
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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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.
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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.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
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I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
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I wanted to be a professional drummer.
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Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?
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Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
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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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I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.
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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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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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Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.
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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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As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.
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When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.
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I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of the year and act for about two months. I would make what I needed from acting and would stretch it out.
