Acting Quotes
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I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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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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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.
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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
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If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
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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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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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What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.
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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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Acting is a form of confession.
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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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Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.
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Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.
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I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.
