Acting Quotes
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Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.
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Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.
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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 was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I was still very into being cool. So I played a lot of basketball and football. But I always had that want to be in theater and to be a part of theater arts. But in my school, it was just a really nerdy thing to be a part of. Everyone in my school wore bowler hats - they were always on, always acting, and all so big. I was like, "I can't be that", even though I wanted to be.
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I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.
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I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.
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I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
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My acting career wasn't going where I wanted it to. I wasn't getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.
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If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.
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Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.
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Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life.
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I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open myself up more in front of an audience. Her plan was for me to just talk more.
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I've always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn't until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.
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Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.
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As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
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Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.
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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 believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.
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I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I'm different from the people who dreamed about it.
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It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.
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I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.
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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 trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.
