Acting Quotes
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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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I've never worked with an acting coach, no.
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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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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 in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.
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Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.
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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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Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.
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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 isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
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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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Acting is not my language at all.
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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 wasn't what I wanted to do forever. I wanted a home, and I wanted children.
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Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
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If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.
