Acting Quotes
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I think acting is getting better and better.
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If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.
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I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a lot of things. I was a pretty normal guy. I wasn't like a guy who grew up in a dark theater watching movies.
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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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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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More and more, acting involves a serious chunk of autobiography and often what we’re talking about is trauma. We long for these experiences in the theatre, for someone to be torn apart in front of us. We always have. Theatre’s at it’s best when it has that, but there are consequences to it.
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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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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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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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Acting is not my language at all.
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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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From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
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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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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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I always feel secure. I can't be a pure actor if I feel insecure. I can't let other things take over my love for acting. For me, it's a giving art. It is not something which I am doing for myself. I am doing it for my co-actors, unless it is something like 'Trapped'.
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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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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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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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There's life after acting.
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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.
