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Acting Quotes
"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."
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"To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe."
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"Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened."
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"In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private."
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"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"
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"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
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"Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium."
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"Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class."
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"To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before."
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"This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to."
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"I don't think I'm great at acting. I think I'm great at directing."
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"The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting."
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"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."
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"I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do."
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"I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it."
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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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"You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them."
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"I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules."
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"Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare."
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"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."
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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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"I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!"
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"I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago."
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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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