Acting Quotes
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I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.
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I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.
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Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm.
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I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
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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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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
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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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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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You know what, I'm very interested in acting, but right now I'm busy promoting my album and going on tour because that's my first love, but I'm very interested in doing some parts that may come my way. I've been offered a few movie parts so far, but I have to really concentrate on singing. But it's something I'm interested in doing eventually. I haven't been offered a part that truly inspires me to take time off, though.
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Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.
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By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.
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For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.
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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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Acting's more of a business for me now.
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.
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Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.
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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 love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.
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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 like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
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I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.
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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.
