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But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company
I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.
To be supportive of myself, I have to go with what I want to do. I started acting and I was so mesmerized.
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.
When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge.
I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.
I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
Well, I would say that Shake It Up was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.
I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.
I have done a lot of things apart from acting, probably because acting was not very consistent in my life.
I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.
I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.
I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
You need to be a good screen partner. It's very meaningful to me to be a part of great acting performances.
Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of.
Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.
I think that Brad Pitt is definitely a hottie. And his acting is so great that it makes him even more sexy.
For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.
The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.
Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.
The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh.
I take from people all the time. I didn't ever go to acting classes or anything. You can just watch people.
I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.
When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.
Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.
Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.
Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.
I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature.
I can only live my life in this way. I don't think I would be living it a different way if I wasn't acting.
I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn’t really my thing.
Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it.
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting.
I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.
At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.
I think anger does fuel a successful acting career. To play the great roles, you have to learn how to blaze.