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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We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.
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At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
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Fun is just another word for learning.
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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.
