Acting Quotes
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As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.
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With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.
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When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.
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I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.
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Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
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I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
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I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.
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Acting's boring.
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I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
