Acting Quotes
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At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
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I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.
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Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
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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 think acting is overrated. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It's wonderful for some people, but I found it nerve-wracking. I was too busy worrying that no one would give me their words to speak.
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Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.
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That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
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There's an awful lot to be desired. I've gone to places where people say to me, "What's your technique?" Technique? What the hell technique is there to acting? We're acting because even with my voice I'm giving what I think is what I want to say.
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That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.
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I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.
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My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.
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I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.
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Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
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To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize, so if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don't want anyone else to do.
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Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.
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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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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.
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Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.
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Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.
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I myself won't do anything, but I won't stop anyone else from acting.
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
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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.
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I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a lot of things. I was a pretty normal guy. I wasn't like a guy who grew up in a dark theater watching movies.
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Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.
