Acting Quotes
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Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
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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 don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.
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I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.
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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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I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.
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Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.
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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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It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling when you wrote the song. They're the same thing, in a way; it's expressing your emotions through words.
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The thing I crave for the most is appreciation for my acting.
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That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.
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I'm acting from my heart. The way how I feel is the way how I act.
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Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.
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I think acting is getting better and better.
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It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
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Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.
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That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.
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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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I'm leaving town cause my children are acting too much like me.
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If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.
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For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.
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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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The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
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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.
