Acting Quotes
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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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When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
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I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.
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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.
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We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.
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Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
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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 was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.
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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.
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I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
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I've never been in an acting class in my life.
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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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If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
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I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
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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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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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For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know automatically.
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Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.
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The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.
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John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.
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Acting was my classroom in many ways and I always believed and I still do that acting is not just about pretending to be someone else, it's also about discovering yourself and reaching deeper inside yourself.
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
