Acting Quotes
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This acting was very hard work.
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Natalie Portman's approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitly, the heart becomes the whole garment - a crimson chemise with streaks of blue veins running across it.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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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 think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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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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If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.
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My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.
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I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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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.
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Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into 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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Before acting took off, I was a professional kiteboarder training for the world circuit; with a sporting activity, you have to be determined, and it taught me to have a thick skin, which came in use after going to so many auditions and being told 'no.'
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
