Acting Quotes
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If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
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I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
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Surprise is a huge element in acting.
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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Acting is in your soul.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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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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'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of 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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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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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 think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.
