Acting Quotes
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
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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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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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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
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A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
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I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.
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I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
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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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I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.
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The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
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Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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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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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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Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
