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I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.
When I was a kid, I always thought that acting was going to be the way to go.
If the costumes are wrong, you feel awful in them and it lessens your acting.
Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions. Action leads to results.
The acting in Downton Abbey has been consistently excellent across the board.
The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.
It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.
I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.
If I wasn't acting, all I'd do is ride my bike. I've always loved doing that.
Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.
I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.
Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.
Some people go to acting classes to learn. I just kind of went for the dates.
I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.
[In acting] I like the fight scenes because you don't have to remember lines.
Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.
From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.
There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
Stop wondering if you're good enough. Know you are, and start acting like it.
Part of acting is always just being available emotionally and open to people.
I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.
I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.
Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.
When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.
I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.
I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.
Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time
That's acting for you. 'White Queen' has English playing Welsh and vice versa.
As I have often said, she has two styles of acting: with or without the beard.
Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.
In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling.
I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.
In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
Acting after being asked is compliance. Acting without being asked is kindness.
Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.
I'm a firm believer in God and I don't think he'd want me acting a certain way.
By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.
I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.
Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.
I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.
I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.