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Acting Quotes


"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."


"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."


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


"Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened."



"I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing."


"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."


"I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting."


"I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing."


"I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do."


"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."



"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."


"I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel."



"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."


"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."


"I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada."


"I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting."



"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."



"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 have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it."



"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."



"Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops."


"To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before."


"I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue."



"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."



"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
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