Acting Quotes
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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 didn't want to be behind a desk. I didn't want to do a normal job. I had made my mind up. I became despondent prematurely. I had my mid-life crisis when I was 16. I suppose I'd agree with that. But acting has helped me develop a lot in my private life.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
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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.
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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'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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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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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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Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
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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.
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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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It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
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When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around - it was all very organic.
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Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.
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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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Fear is not cowardice. Acting in a wrong and contemptible manner because of our fear is cowardice.
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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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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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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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For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.
