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Acting Quotes


"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."


"Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world."


"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."


"You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me."


"I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that."



"Acting is always a challenge."



"It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting."



"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."


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


"I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting."


"I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting."



"In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching."


"Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine."



"As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting."


"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."


"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."


"I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent."


"Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other."


"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."


"It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all."



"I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing."


"What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing."


"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."



"In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic."
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