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Acting Quotes
"Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting."
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"I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker."
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"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."
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"I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young."
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"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."
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"Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting."
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"I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting."
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"I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera."
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"I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up."
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"I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it."
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"I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial."
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"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting."
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"Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one."
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"I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared."
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"I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting."
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"When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up."
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"Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor."
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"My acting coach makes the impossible accessible."
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"I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue."
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"What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed."
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"I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting."
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"Ever since I was a very little girl, I've dreamed of acting."
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"My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works."
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"I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately."
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"Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate."
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"The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting."
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"I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take."
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"I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked."
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"I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue."
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