Acting Quotes
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I'm leaving town cause my children are acting too much like me.
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My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.
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My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.
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You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
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I have lunch with my friend who works for a theatrical agent and her and I were sitting there eating lunch on Sunset Boulevard and a woman who was a theatrical agent drove by and saw me and jumped out of the car and ran up and handed me her card. I had no idea this happens or would happen and I didn't know what to expect out of it. And my brother said alright you better call her and I said alright, why not? So that's pretty much how we got our first agent and then we started taking acting classes.
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In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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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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You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
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That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.
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Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.
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Acting is embarrassing.
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Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.
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Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!
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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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Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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You gotta understand, there weren't a whole lot of roles for Hispanics in the Eighties, so comedy was really the way I could really feed myself and eventually feed my family. I was an actor who learned to be a comic, and it's cool to come back and get back into acting - move forward in the direction I started out to do in the beginning.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.
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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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I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.
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Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.
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Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.
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When I started acting, I was asked said, 'What's your dream?' 'What would you like to achieve?' I would say, 'Oh, I'd like to sit opposite DeNiro and hold my own.' But, you never think it's gonna happen.
