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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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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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 love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.
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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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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
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I actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.
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I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.
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Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm.
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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've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
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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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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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We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.
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Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
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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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The most likely explanation is the most practical. '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 think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person.
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For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.
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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've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.
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I think acting is my destiny. I did my first film when I was just eight. However, I never took that role seriously.
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If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.
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If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.
