Acting Quotes
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Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
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I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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This acting was very hard work.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.
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I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
