Acting Quotes
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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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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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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
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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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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.
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Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.
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When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.
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I told everyone that actings for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.
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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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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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By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.
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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 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.
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I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can.
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Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.
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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 don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
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To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.
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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
