Acting Quotes
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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Surprise is a huge element in acting.
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I couldn't have asked for a better acting partner and a better human being to work with. We have to work very closely together, and I felt, in our screen test, that we had really good chemistry, but I wasn't sure if I was just making that up. Max has written a really finely wrought bromance. I have complete trust in Elijah [Wood].
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
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By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?
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One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
