Acting Quotes
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You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.
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Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
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I love acting, love it. It's the greatest fun in the world. I've never had trouble feeling extremely grateful.
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I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.
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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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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 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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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 creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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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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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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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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Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm.
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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've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.
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The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.
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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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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.
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I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.
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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
