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Acting Quotes
"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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"You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me."
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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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"Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this."
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"It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting."
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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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"Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one."
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"Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other."
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"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."
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"Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."
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"Ever since I was a very little girl, I've dreamed of acting."
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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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"I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do."
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"I did theater when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush."
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"Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college."
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"Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over."
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"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."
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"Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting."
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"Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting."
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"I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along."
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"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."
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"What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing."
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"I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting."
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