Acting Quotes
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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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That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.
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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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Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.
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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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For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.
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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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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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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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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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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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That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.
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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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I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.
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Acting is not my language at all.
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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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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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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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Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.
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Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
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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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I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.
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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.
