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Acting Quotes
"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."
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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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"I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!"
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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 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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"I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York."
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"You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them."
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"I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting."
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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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"And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way."
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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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"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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"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."
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"I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred."
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"I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules."
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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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"It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else."
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"But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it."
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"When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up."
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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
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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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"I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances."
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"Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."
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"Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush."
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"Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right."
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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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"There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing."
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