Acting Quotes
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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 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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Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.
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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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I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
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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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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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With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.
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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 had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.
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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 an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
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I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.
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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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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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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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Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.
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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.
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All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.
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We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.
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A flair for publicity does not necessarily mean a flair for acting.
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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
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...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.
