Acting Quotes
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Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.
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[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
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I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.
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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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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 equal parts talent and perseverance.
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As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness. I covered it with being funny and tough, but it's hard to be tough when you're making your cot in your bunk over soaking wet sheets and acting like nobody can smell anything.
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There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.
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Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
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I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could get my hands on, so it was something that was a part of me from a very early age.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
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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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No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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With acting, I didn't get much from it.
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Fear is not cowardice. Acting in a wrong and contemptible manner because of our fear is cowardice.
