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Acting Quotes
"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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"So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me."
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"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."
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"Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take."
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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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"Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."
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"I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially."
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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 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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"You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting."
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"In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic."
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"But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting."
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"I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting."
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"There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels."
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"It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being."
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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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"Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core."
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"In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year."
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"Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it."
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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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"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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"Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept."
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"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
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