Acting Quotes
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I love acting. I'm able to express myself and not get made fun of for it.
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I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.
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I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.
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I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.
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I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.
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If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.
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Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.
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I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.
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There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.
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The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.
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Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.
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Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.
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There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.
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I love acting - I love doing it. It's a lot of fun, but for the longest time, I wanted to become a firefighter. I still do want to become a firefighter.
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Movie is an industry without job security. As soon as a job is done, you have to find a job. But I think doing different stuff makes you better at other stuff: Acting makes you better at stand-up, which makes you better at writing.
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Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
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I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend in the world, we were living together. He was writing, and I was trying writing; I wasnt getting paid for it like he was, but I always had the acting bug.
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Acting is interesting because you get to be involved in different stories and get to work with different people. Also, acting allows one to be a part of different stories, travel to different parts of the country and all the experiences put together make life interesting.
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Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.
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I have these surreal moments where I’m like ‘I’m pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal’s baby’ and ‘I’m telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.’ But you’re acting, so the focus is on the work.
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No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts.
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Once I committed to acting, this has been it.
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I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.
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How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.
