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Acting Quotes
"In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."
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"It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it."
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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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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 well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."
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"You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them."
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"I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent."
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"I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!"
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"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."
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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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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
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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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"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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