Acting Quotes
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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I do find acting cathartic.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.
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Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.
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It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.
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Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
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I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.
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The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.
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For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.
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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
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Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.
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I argue that the first image-makers were acting rationally in the specific social circumstances ... they were not driven by ‘aesthetics’.
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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.
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I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.
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With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
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I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.
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I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.
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I didn't intend to be an actress. It was one of many things I was interested in, and it just took off. I was an actress between the ages of 18 and 22, and it was a wonderful, fun thing to do, but it wasn't what I intended long term. I parked acting a long time ago.
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
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What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
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I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
