Acting Quotes
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Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated or out of place as an Asian. And growing up in White America, that's absolutely my experience. And I think that's why I got into acting because I wanted to be anybody else but Asian.
Ming-Na Wen
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I used to like Barbra Streisand films. It was Funny Girl that really turned me on, in a sense, to acting. I remember it specifically being a rainy Saturday afternoon. I couldnt play football, so I stayed in, and I watched Funny Girl.
Sean Harris
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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.
Mike Leigh
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I broke into acting doing Latino roles. I played a Latino casanova in 'The Winner' and a Latino character on 'Hannah Montana.'
Michael Steger
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With acting, I get to escape into this character and embody it. With music it's like, "Hey guys, this is my diary, here's all my feelings."
Taryn Manning
Boomkat
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Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.
Stephen Collins
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I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.
Debra Dean
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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people.
J. C. Ryle
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Gary Ross one of those directors which lets you do what you need to do to become your character - he lets you try to do everything on your own when you're acting. Then at some points he would say, "Let's try this," or "Let's try that." Most of the time he just kind of let me try to just become my character on my own and it worked out really well.
Willow Shields
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My acting was only average. I wasn't dedicated. Starting as a tot and working for twenty years was long enough, so I quit. The fan mail still arrives . . . why, I don't know.
Anne Shirley
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I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.
Evan Rachel Wood
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Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.
Ruth Gordon
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Acting, I get to explore other people and other characters; with music, I get to express and explore myself.
Michael J. Willett
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I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.
Kevin Spacey
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I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.
Steve Valentine
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One of the joys about acting is researching.
William Sanderson
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My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called "Love for Sale," and that was my first role in any film.
Terrence J
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I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philosophy, and, then, political science. I thought, 'Wow, this is something I really enjoy.' I kind of got into that whole world of law and political science. I was really into it and enjoying it, and then I took an acting elective, and that was it.
Michael Kelly
