Acting Quotes
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That's the thing about acting - you can't fake 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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I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.
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That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.
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If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.
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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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Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.
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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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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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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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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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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
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Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.
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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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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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Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.
