Acting Quotes
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I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.
Barkhad Abdi
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Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.
Yara Shahidi
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
Rachel Dratch
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Allu Arjun is one of the most stylish actors. We should take care of our looks when acting with him because he wears the best of costumes, and if we don't take care, we would look like a housemaid beside him.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
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I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
Sam Rockwell
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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
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I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
Otto Preminger
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I do find acting cathartic.
Francesca Annis
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Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.
Eddie Marsan
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I think with improv - and I say it all the time because it's become such a catch thing that you talk about improv - if the scene is well-written, you don't need to improv. But that being said, if something strikes you in the moment and, most importantly, you know where the scene is supposed to go, it's no different than method acting.
Vince Vaughn
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I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.
Sally Hawkins
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I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro in Track & Field to do this - I took a chance with this.
Lance Gross
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
Daniel Breaker
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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.
Dan Futterman
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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
Andrew Cuomo
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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, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
Nicole Kidman
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Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?
Rachel Weisz
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
Katey Sagal
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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
Kassie DePaiva
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
Laura Vandervoort
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I love acting.
Ed Asner
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Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.
Clarence John Laughlin
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So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.
Kate Upton