Acting Quotes
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
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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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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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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you're working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you're wearing or where you are.
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I want to be acting until the day I die!
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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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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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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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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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.
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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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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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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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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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My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.
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I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.
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With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.
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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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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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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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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.
