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I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.
I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.
The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.
This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.
I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.
All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.
No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.
I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.
I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.
Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type.
Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.
I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.
I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!
On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.
Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.
By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.
Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.
There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
Acting is a different discipline. On stage I'm free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.
Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?
You really must stop acting Like a 20-year-old, gold plated In a midlife crisis You just graduated Happy 60th
At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?
I identify myself as a stand-up first. Even though lately there's been an explosion of acting on my schedule.
I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.
I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.
By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person.
Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.
I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.
I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.
It's closer to just acting in a film because it was a six-month commitment. We got to fly all over the world.
I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.
The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.
I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my friends.
Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.
Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.
My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.