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Acting Quotes
"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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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting."
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"It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting."
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"Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession."
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"Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it."
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"I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially."
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"Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting."
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"Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference."
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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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"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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"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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"Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core."
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"One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career."
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"Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept."
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"It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards."
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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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"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
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"There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels."
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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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"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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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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