Acting Quotes
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You know it's hard for me to, like, act the way I've been acting. And, like, being, like, nice to everyone. And I think I deserve to be acknowledged for that.
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I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.
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Acting is making it seem like it's happening now.
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I won a scholarship to come to LA and compete in a modeling and talent completion and was amazed when I won it. I had never acted before in my life and won the acting category. I began to wonder what this is about and then decided to see what happened.
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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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I consider being a performer work. I come from a theater family; I've been an actor all my life. I started acting when I was a kid, and I've earned a living as an artist all my life. It's my job in the sense that it's everything I am, the only thing I know how to do. I literally do not have qualifications to do anything else on this planet. Seriously, it's scary. [But] I don't consider it a job [because] it's my religion - it's my faith, it's my family, it's everything to me.
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I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of the year and act for about two months. I would make what I needed from acting and would stretch it out.
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It's a little payback. He was acting like he had 10 years in the league.
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I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.
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Acting, I get to explore other people and other characters; with music, I get to express and explore myself.
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It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.
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The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.
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I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.
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All the world's a stage.
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If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.
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I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.
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I know that the greatest of actresses has about 20 good years of acting in her and that she will go on living for 30 or 40 years as a human being. So, the conclusion I have come to is that I can't make acting my whole life.
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I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open myself up more in front of an audience. Her plan was for me to just talk more.
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Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.
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Acting kind of chose me.
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I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process
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I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.
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I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.
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My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
