Acting Quotes
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The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
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I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.
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I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.
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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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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've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
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My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.
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Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.
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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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To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
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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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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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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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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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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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Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn't getting any acting jobs.
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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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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 is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.
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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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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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The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.
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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 started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
