Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
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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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I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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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.
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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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People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
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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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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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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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People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.
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I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
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Acting's more of a business for me now.
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When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
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Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.
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It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.
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So just remember that this is the first sign of trouble- if books are banned, that means that things are going wrong.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
