Acting Quotes
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You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.
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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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Maybe the the luxury of not having acting be my only profession is that I can be more selective about what I choose to be in. I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.
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My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.
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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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I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.
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Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors.
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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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There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.
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The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to continue or to correct it, so I am aware of identity and race as being much more fluid, I think, than someone who is "purely" one thing or the other. And acting does challenge me to address those particular issues.
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Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.
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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 am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
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I realized that acting was the thing I was still maybe the best at. Of the things I felt like I was good at, that was the thing that came the most naturally to me.
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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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Comedy is acting out optimism.
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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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The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.
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Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?
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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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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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Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.
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It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.
