Acting Quotes
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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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I could have made it as a singer, but I went with acting - surrendered to it, in a way.
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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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Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.
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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 grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.
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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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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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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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Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.
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I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.
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Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.
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You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.
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From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
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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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Acting wasn't what I wanted to do forever. I wanted a home, and I wanted children.
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That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.
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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.
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I'm leaving town cause my children are acting too much like me.
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Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.
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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.
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Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors.
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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.
