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I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.
When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.
There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.
By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.
Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'
Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'
You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.
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.
In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.
In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.
I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.
After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
I really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That's neat.
I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.
I was more interested in playing sports than acting. I didn't take acting too seriously until the end of my junior year.
Acting has given me a successful career and I will do it whenever I'm approached for any challenging and promising role.
Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.
(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.
The correct strategy in heads-up poker is based on identifying and acting upon your opponent's strengths and weaknesses.
You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
Consequences of acting in Donald Trump's usual egocentric, "I make the rules," way can be quite dangerous for all of us.
I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention.
I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
I mean there's that awesome quote where Joanne Woodward said, 'Acting is like sex: you should do it, not talk about it.'
I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.
I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.
Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.
I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.
People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.
A fight scene with a crazy can be quite physical. You don't feel it while you're acting, but each day you go, that hurts.
Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.
These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.
And I don’t want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn’t have built the confidence to do acting if I didn’t model.
The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.
I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.
Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.
I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.
I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.
I used to do commercial acting. I've been in Lunchables commercials, Honda commercials, Blue Diamond Almonds commercials.