Acting Quotes
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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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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 love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.
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Acting has always been a part of my life as far as I can remember.
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This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power... it doesn't really work that way. I don't ever really feel powerful in any way. It's kind of the same thing it's always been: You just figure out what you want to do and you do it.
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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 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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That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.
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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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I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.
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You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.
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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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I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.
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It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
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Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
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The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.
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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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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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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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Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.
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If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.
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Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.
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That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
