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The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.
Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.
So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.
I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.
If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.
Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.
I love acting, of course, and I would still love to keep acting, but I want to try my hands at so many things.
I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.
Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.
I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.
You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.
Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was real.
I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.
Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance.
The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.
Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.
Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.
Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems.
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
I don't really do acting. I've done a little bit - enough to know I'll stick to what I know. Music is my thing.
I want to go deep into fashion; I want to go maybe into acting. There's a lot of stuff I would like to go into.
I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.
If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.
I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.
Sometimes we overcomplicate living the gospel. Consistency in acting in accordance with the Lord’s will is key.
The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.
After university, I taught in a sixth-form college in York for a year and a half before deciding to try acting.
The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market
When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.
General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.
I'm really thirsty to go on tour! I love putting on a show. If the crowd ain't acting bougie, I love performing.
An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
Ingrid Bergman made an enormous impression on me. I couldn't imagine where that kind of acting talent came from.
That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.