Acting Quotes
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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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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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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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My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.
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That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.
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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 I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.
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As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.
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A little secret about actors is that we never think we do a great job in auditions. We kind of just go in and do our work and leave sort of hoping for the best. It's an interesting dynamic - acting is such an interesting job. You never quite know how well you do.
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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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A career in acting, it's a learning process.
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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
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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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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors.
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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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Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.
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Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.
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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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I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
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I think a lot about the editing of the films when we're making them, partly because I studied that, and partly because if you think about being in love while you're supposed to be acting in love, there's nowhere to go. You have to focus on something else and then do what's being asked, and you might get some semblance of something interesting.
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Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.
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There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.
