Acting Quotes
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How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.
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It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.
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I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well, but is intensely rewarding. Particularly the chance to help draw out the best in young actors.
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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."
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I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.
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I didn't study acting.
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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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Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero, and it won't be solved by one government acting alone. The climate problem will not be solved without mass participation by the general public in countries around the globe.
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Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
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I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
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It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.
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People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
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I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
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My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.
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It's a little payback. He was acting like he had 10 years in the league.
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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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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.
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I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.
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A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but you hope that it's taken over by something else. I hope I've climbed over the vanity hurdle.
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A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.
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I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.
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I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.
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I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
