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 started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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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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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'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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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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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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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
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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 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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It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.
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There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part.
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Maybe the the luxury of not having acting be my only profession is that I can be more selective about what I choose to be in. I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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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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I've been told there's a special golden shelf, in the secret vault kept at the back of every bookstore in America, that contains the Bible, 'War and Peace,' and 'Driving Mr. Albert.'
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When I want to reward myself I get a relaxing massage.
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Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.
