Acting Quotes
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I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
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I've been fortunate with my acting career. A lot of scripts come to me. I don't mind auditioning if something that requires that, but I haven't had to in awhile, which is a nice place to be 'cause I've been on quite a lot of auditions in my life.
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There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
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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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I really want my acting to be definitive a lot of times, but I must feel like in any given moment there is a lot of things going on with Rose. I kept telling Denzel [Washington] throughout filming [Fences] that the house is her joy and her tomb.
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I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music.
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I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
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One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
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Acting is very start and stop.
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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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I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'
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It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.
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I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
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I take acting very seriously. I put everything I have and know into it.
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With acting, I didn't get much from it.
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Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio.
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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.
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Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
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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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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
