Acting Quotes
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I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.
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I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.
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You know what’s more insane than slaughterhouses? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.
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Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.
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Every director should take an acting class.
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Acting - I'm good at it, but it's not my passion. Music, I'm not as good at, but that's my passion. I think I'm just going to go with the flow, wait until one picks up, and take the opportunities one at the time.
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I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.
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The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from a play I was in.
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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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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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That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
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I didn't study acting.
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I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.
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Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.
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My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a career. Everyone in my family went to university - my older brother is a lawyer - but when they saw me for the first time at the theatre, they thought, "OK". They like it very much now.
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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've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower than a 10 handicap on my golf game, I'd be thrilled.
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In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.
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I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Acting is constant exploration.
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My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.
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The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.
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Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.
