Acting Quotes
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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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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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Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
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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 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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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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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone 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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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.
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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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With acting, I didn't get much from it.
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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 is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.
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You never really see me acting a fool on TV.
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I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can.
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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 didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
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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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My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.
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Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.
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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 like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
