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Acting Quotes
"I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it."
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"I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons."
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"A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting."
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"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"
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"Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment."
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"When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize."
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"I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality."
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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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"Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways."
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"The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it."
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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 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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"Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one."
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"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."
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"If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it."
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"Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion."
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"I don't know how I could have an acting career with this."
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"In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private."
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"I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?"
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"I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job."
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"In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films."
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"I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it."
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"I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago."
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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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