Acting Quotes
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I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.
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I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.
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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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I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
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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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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 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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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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What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.
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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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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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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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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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Fear is not cowardice. Acting in a wrong and contemptible manner because of our fear is cowardice.
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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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Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.
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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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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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[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry.
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We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.
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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
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Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
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You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.
