Acting Quotes
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.
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With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
