Acting Quotes
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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
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A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but you hope that it's taken over by something else. I hope I've climbed over the vanity hurdle.
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You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.
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British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.
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Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.
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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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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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I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
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How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?
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My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.
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Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.
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Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.
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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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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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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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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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Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
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Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors.
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I could have made it as a singer, but I went with acting - surrendered to it, in a way.
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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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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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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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Acting has always been a part of my life as far as I can remember.
