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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The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
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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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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
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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 experience with something sweet behind it.
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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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I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.
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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 was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a lot of things. I was a pretty normal guy. I wasn't like a guy who grew up in a dark theater watching movies.
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Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
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I've never worked with an acting coach, no.
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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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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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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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I feel like you have to pull from some personal experiences [to acting]. At least that's how I work sometimes. It's just easier that way. And I try it as best as I can and kind of dissolve myself and become a character, not me, or just blur the lines.
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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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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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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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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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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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Acting wasn't what I wanted to do forever. I wanted a home, and I wanted children.
