Acting Quotes
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
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I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
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I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?
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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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Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.
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I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.
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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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There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.
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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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We all kind of have moments like that, where we don't know why we're acting a certain way, or we can't even explain the emotion that we're feeling.
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I didn't grow up, really, in the film business, even though my parents are both artists. I grew up in New York City. They would never put me into acting. I just kind of wanted it, and I told them that.
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It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But acting is incredibly rewarding, working and interacting with people to create funny moments. I can't imagine not doing acting or stand-up, I really enjoy both of them that much.
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I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
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By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.
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The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.
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Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.
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Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.
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I myself won't do anything, but I won't stop anyone else from acting.
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It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.
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Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.
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If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.
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I have been acting for over 20 years and I started in the smallest little theater that you can possibly imagine and then I very slowly built myself to this point. So it is never like there is this real sharp change or something that really startled me. It has just been very gradual.
