Acting Quotes
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I want to be acting until the day I die!
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Surprise is a huge element in acting.
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I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
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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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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.
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I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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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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There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.
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I couldn't have asked for a better acting partner and a better human being to work with. We have to work very closely together, and I felt, in our screen test, that we had really good chemistry, but I wasn't sure if I was just making that up. Max has written a really finely wrought bromance. I have complete trust in Elijah [Wood].
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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
