Acting Quotes
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With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
Tavi Gevinson -
I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.
Mahershala Ali -
This nation loves singing and loves acting.
Kate Smith -
Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
Oprah Winfrey -
I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
Ralph Fiennes -
My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
Jaclyn Smith -
With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
Tana French
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I love acting.
Ed Asner -
The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
Cameron Monaghan -
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
Andrew Cuomo -
I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
Ice Cube -
I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre.
Neil Diamond -
Acting has never excited me.
Malaika Arora Khan
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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.
Fidel Castro -
Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
Felicity Jones -
And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
Gabriel Byrne -
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Nancy Reagan -
I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
Nicole Kidman -
I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.
Ted Lange
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I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
Mara Wilson -
I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
Maddie Hasson -
What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.
Ian McShane -
Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.
Eddie Redmayne