Acting Quotes
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My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.
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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 still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.
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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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This acting was very hard work.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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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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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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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 find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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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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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.
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Surprise is a huge element in acting.
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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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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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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 tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.
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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
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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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I don't miss acting at all.
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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.
