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Acting Quotes
"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."
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"I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent."
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"I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be."
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"I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera."
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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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"There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment."
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"The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it."
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"That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere."
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"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
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"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."
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"One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role."
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"Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good."
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"I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile."
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"Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience."
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"I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility."
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"But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it."
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"Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic."
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"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."
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"The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer."
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"I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower."
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"Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play."
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