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Acting Quotes


"I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!"


"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."


"I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am."


"If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl."


"A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me."


"Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways."


"It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being."



"Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor."


"When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate."


"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."


"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."


"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."


"It's fun being able to suit up and go and kick butt and not have to worry about memorizing dialogue. It's a whole different way of acting because you're not depending on the words at all, you're really depending on everything else that you have."


"I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young."


"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."


"I'm not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon."


"There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment."


"I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators."



"I don't know how I could have an acting career with this."


"My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works."



"To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe."


"In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private."


"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic."


"I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first."


"I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging."



"The three of us acting was truly one of the best experiences I've ever had. I really look forward to the days when all three of us shoot together, because the sparks really fly."


"It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards."
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