Acting Quotes
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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.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
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I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.
Tom Hardy
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Modeling is great because I don't have lines to memorize. But I find acting much more challenging - which is a good thing!
Candace Kita
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You know what, I'm very interested in acting, but right now I'm busy promoting my album and going on tour because that's my first love, but I'm very interested in doing some parts that may come my way. I've been offered a few movie parts so far, but I have to really concentrate on singing. But it's something I'm interested in doing eventually. I haven't been offered a part that truly inspires me to take time off, though.
Christina Aguilera
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I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.
Kristen Stewart
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I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.
Sarah Chalke
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Acting takes a lot of practice, but so does auditioning.
Vincent Rodriguez III
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The best part of acting is the rehearsal, because that is where the real discovery comes. And if you're lucky, some of that actually makes it onto the page and some of that actually makes it onto the screen.
Hal Linden
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Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.
Kevin Spacey
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And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that.
Mackenzie Astin
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Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.
Miranda Otto
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Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.
Nicki Minaj
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Mads Mikkelsen’s acting is very subtle, precise, nuanced, so he brings something completely different to the character. If you compare Mads’ Hannibal to Anthony Hopkins’ for example. Not to mention that Mads Mikkelsen is very handsome and sexy, so he brings that to the character as well.
Caroline Dhavernas
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Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.
Dustin Hoffman
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I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.
LL Cool J
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I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.
Jon Bon Jovi
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Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
Ang Lee
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My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.
Ian Mckellen
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Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.
Virginia Madsen
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The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.
Carroll Quigley
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When you're trying to find that line between are you doing comedy, are you doing drama, what are you doing, Martin, for me, anchors it very often, because he approaches it from such just a pure acting standpoint.
Orlando Jones
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I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.
Sasha Alexander
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I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started Homeland.
Morgan Saylor
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I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.
William Makepeace Thackeray