Acting Quotes
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
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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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I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.
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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 really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.
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'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.
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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 would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.
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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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Acting's more of a business for me now.
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If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
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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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Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.
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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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I actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.
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Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
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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.
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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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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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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
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I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.
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Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.
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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
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I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.
