Bill Burr Quotes
I mean, stand up you're by yourself and it's live and when you're acting, unless you're doing a monologue, you're interacting with somebody else. Even if you're doing a monologue you're saying it to somebody and it's not live so you can do it a few times.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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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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Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
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Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
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The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.
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I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.
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People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
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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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Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
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I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.
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I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.
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'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.
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Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.
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Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.
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You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is
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Doesn't it get on my nerves when people say science doesn't know everything. Science knows it doesn't know everything otherwise it would stop. Just becuase science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy-tale appeals to you.
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The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
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I think it is very important to be a method actor.
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We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
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I mean, stand up you're by yourself and it's live and when you're acting, unless you're doing a monologue, you're interacting with somebody else. Even if you're doing a monologue you're saying it to somebody and it's not live so you can do it a few times.
