Acting Quotes
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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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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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Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.
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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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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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I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.
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If you give up on trying to change larger structures and just go off on what some would say is a personal indulgence or being a survivalist, it can be seen as incredibly negative or pessimistic. But the other way to think of it is this: through manifesting the way we live and acting as if it's normal, you're defending yourself against depression and dysfunction, but you're also providing a model that others can copy. And that is absolutely about bringing large-scale change.
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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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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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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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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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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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You never really see me acting a fool on TV.
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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.
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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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I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.
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This is acting like the mariner, who, when his ship is filling with water, neglects to stop the leak, or ply the pump, that he may mend his sails.
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We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.
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It's interesting how you can blur the line between acting and living and learn from your performances. I'm just trying to keep learning as much as I can and not get caught up in all the distractions that can play havoc with your mind.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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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 take acting very seriously. I put everything I have and know into it.
