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"The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself."
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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
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"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
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"My acting coach makes the impossible accessible."
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"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."
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"I don't like acting things; I like feeling things."
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"Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court."
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"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."
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"There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing."
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"The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands."
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"At this point I have no interest in returning to wrestling. I am pursuing my acting career. But I never say never. I enjoyed the three years I was in the wrestling industry."
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"I always look for a challenge and something that's different."
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"What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy."
Life
"I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance."
Life
"I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing."
Money
"Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes."
Talk
"I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way."
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"I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning."
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"I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life."
Life
"The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself."
Acting
"The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible."
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