Acting Quotes
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The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
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When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.
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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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The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.
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I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
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Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting.
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I find in film acting that however many years you have done it for, you can feel totally relaxed and at ease with the people around you, absolutely wonderful, then roll camera and a little part of you goes, 'Ugh'. It is learning how to manage that.
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I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.
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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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Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.
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I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
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Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
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It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
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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 try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.
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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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I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.
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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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I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
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When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
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I don't know that I'd want to do acting as a job, not as a proper job. I'd like to do it as a hobby. I want to be a supply teacher. I'd like to be one of those teachers that kids really like.
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The world is being destroyed by psychopaths, so of all the things to be concerned about - acting, it's not really up there, is it?
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Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.
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Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.
