Acting Quotes
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I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.
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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 just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.
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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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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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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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Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it’s nice to go, Well, I’m gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling. You don’t get to do that on television.
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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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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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Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.
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If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.
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Either in or out of time, the decision of a personal agency to commit an action happens antecedent to the action itself. Even if the deciding and the acting happened simultaneously, it would still not be true that the acting was antecedent to the deciding. Imagine God saying, "Oh, look! I just created a universe. Now I'd better decide to do it.
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I love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.
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Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.
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I think it's almost better to start acting at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.
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My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.
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Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
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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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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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My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.
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Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.
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Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.
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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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I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.
