Acting Quotes
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This nation loves singing and loves acting.
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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 took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing a television show, though. I actually think there are a couple of good ones. And there is some terrible theater. Film is a very different kind of acting.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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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 is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
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Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.
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Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.
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I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.
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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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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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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 don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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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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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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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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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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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
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Acting has never excited me.
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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 is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
