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"If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl."
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"It's an acting job - acting natural."
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"Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene."
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"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."
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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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"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."
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"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it."
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"Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning."
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"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."
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"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."
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"I don't like acting things; I like feeling things."
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Explore more quotes by Peter Sarsgaard
"You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl."
Life
"I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones."
Change
"If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl."
Acting
"If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do."
Chance
"The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over."
Silence
"It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with."
Love
"I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good."
Act
"I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them."
People
"Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again."
Home
"But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film."
Work
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