Acting Quotes
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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
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The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.
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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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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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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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Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?
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I've never worked with an acting coach, no.
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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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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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Acting wasn't what I wanted to do forever. I wanted a home, and I wanted children.
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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 I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
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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 has always been a part of my life as far as I can remember.
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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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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.
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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 always feel secure. I can't be a pure actor if I feel insecure. I can't let other things take over my love for acting. For me, it's a giving art. It is not something which I am doing for myself. I am doing it for my co-actors, unless it is something like 'Trapped'.
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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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If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.
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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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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
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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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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.
