George Sanders Quotes
Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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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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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
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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 took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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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'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 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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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
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It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.
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I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
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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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You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.
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We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
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The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.
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Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.
