Casey Kasem (Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem) Quotes
Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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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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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
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Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
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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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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
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I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.
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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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If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.
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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.
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Acting's more of a business for me now.
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I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.
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I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
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Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.
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I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.
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I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
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What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
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Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.
