Acting Quotes
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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 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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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view about acting and doesn't seem jaded at all. She seems more like a student and yet she is veteran actor who really brings it.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.
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By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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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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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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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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If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
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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 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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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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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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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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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.
