Acting Quotes
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If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.
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I want to be acting until the day I die!
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It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.
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When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
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When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.
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I love singing as much as I love acting.
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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
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I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.
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Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.
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Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
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I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you're working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you're wearing or where you are.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
