Acting Quotes
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
Fiona Gubelmann -
I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
Hank Azaria
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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.
Viggo Mortensen -
I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.
Xavier Dolan -
It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
Haley Bennett -
I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
Olga Kurylenko -
I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
Vanessa Morgan -
When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
Salma Hayek
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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.
Orlando Bloom -
My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
Abigail Breslin -
I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.
Nadine Velazquez -
Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view about acting and doesn't seem jaded at all. She seems more like a student and yet she is veteran actor who really brings it.
Sam Rockwell -
Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
Tea Leoni
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My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
Mara Wilson -
I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
Olivia Williams -
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.
Sam Heughan -
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.
Jack Black -
I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.
Lacey Chabert -
Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
Katey Sagal
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
Carl Weathers -
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
Dana Spiotta -
With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
Tavi Gevinson -
I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
Rachel Keller