Acting Quotes
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On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.
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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 am a huge fan of movies. It is my favorite thing during downtime. I get completely lost in films. I find them transformative, even one that seems light and popcorn. I get something profound with the right music played with what I am watching. If there is good cinematography and good acting you can find something that really stays with you. I really enjoy being part of that collaborative process. I like making something really big that will be seen in a theater by a lot of people. There is nothing like it.
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To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.
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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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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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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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I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.
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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 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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The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.
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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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The world is being destroyed by psychopaths, so of all the things to be concerned about - acting, it's not really up there, is it?
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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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.
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Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.
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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
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If you're a boxer, you want to get the ring with a Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali type. When you're acting, you want to get in with Meryl Streep, and that's what I did.
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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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I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.
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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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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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I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.
