Acting Quotes
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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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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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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'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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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 think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
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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.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
