Acting Quotes
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I think the greatest gift actually acting is that I have a true fascination and love for people, and the way they are, and all the choices they made in life and all the different paths they took. I feel like acting gives me an opportunity to dig a little bit into that. That's great because it's eye-opening and it makes you an open person.
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Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.
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I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.
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I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even the hair and makeup. Editing is thrilling. Everything to do with films is absorbing - everything but the money part, the business. But I'm deeply glad I've had that experience.
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I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
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All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'
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I sort of look at acting like that: if you have no confines, you have everywhere to go.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.
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There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
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I had always seen myself doing theatre, as I don't come from an acting background, so that was my first way into acting, I suppose.
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I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.
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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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Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.
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That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.
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I think that I get different kinds of joy out of directing a film and acting, and it's sort of necessary to just be doing one and focusing on that. I'm in awe of anyone who tries to be an actor-director, so I couldn't really see that.
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For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.
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Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.
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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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Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors.
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Some of the joy in acting is switching it up: being able to do something that's different than what you've been doing.
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I don't have a formula. Every time an actor wants me to hold their hand, I hold their hand. If they say, "Stay," I say "Okay, respect." You know? "I'm right over here." A kid, if I need to give a line-reading, I'll start acting out the part for the kid and just mimic the kid. You know? Whatever it takes.
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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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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
