Acting Quotes
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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.
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The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.
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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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I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.
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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.
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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 was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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Acting is embarrassing.
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My goals are to continue acting and also to produce some independent films in the next few years. Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.
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More and more, acting involves a serious chunk of autobiography and often what we’re talking about is trauma. We long for these experiences in the theatre, for someone to be torn apart in front of us. We always have. Theatre’s at it’s best when it has that, but there are consequences to it.
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I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.
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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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The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.
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When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.
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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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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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I've never worked with an acting coach, no.
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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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Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.
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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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A career in acting, it's a learning process.
