Acting Quotes
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I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.
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I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.
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There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!
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I've never worked with an acting coach, no.
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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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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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Acting is embarrassing.
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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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What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting. It's all the same. Seventy-five percent of the skills are the same in both media.
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Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
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Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing. No one would cast a dancing part with someone who cannot dance sufficiently to come up to professional standards. The same is true of acting. But when it comes to singing, more often than not it is amateur night. . . . Either musicals should be written for specified performers in the first place, or they should be cast with people who are adequate to its dancing, acting and singing demands.
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If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.
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Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.
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That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.
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Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
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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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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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Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.
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Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
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I still say I would love to go back to acting, but after my kids are older. You can't just drop everything and go out on a call and keep a stable life.
