Acting Quotes
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Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
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Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
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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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Acting is not my language at all.
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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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Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
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I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.
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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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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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I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.
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I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.
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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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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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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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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 for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].
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There's life after acting.
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I definitely caught acting bug.
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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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That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.
