Nolan Gould Quotes
Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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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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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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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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I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
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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'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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I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
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In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
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I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.
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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 never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
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I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.
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Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.
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It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick
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First of all, Asian representation hardly exists to begin with.
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Even when you're not acting, don't lose sight of your goals or who you are.
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I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.
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Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.
