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I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.
In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.
I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.
What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.
The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun.
I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.
As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater.
It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.
It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.
By early 1971, I had been acting professionally for 18 months - theatre work and my first telly, an episode of 'Dr. Who.'
As much as I appreciate acting and enjoy it, and like it, it wasn't something where I grew up wanting to be a movie star.
I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.
Saying yes means getting up and acting on your belief that you can create meaning and purpose in whatever life hands you.
By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life.
Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.
Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.
As anyone who's done any acting will tell you, if you haven't got a malicious evil streak, it's such a joy to let one out.
With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.
A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.
To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.
Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.
The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.
I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.
I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!
A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.
I discovered I loved acting at a Summer Camp. That's when I really realised that I enjoyed it and that I wanted to try it.
Maybe down the road, I can see myself being part of the creative process, but acting is definitely my first and true love.
To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.
I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.
I've always appreciated great acting performances, but I've even learned to appreciate not so great ones 'cause it's hard.
When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
Being a Kapoor, acting is genetic. My sister paved the way for me when she became the first Kapoor girl to take up acting.
I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.
Am I proud of being straight? No. You know why? Because if I start acting proud, that's going to make me seem kind of gay.
One thing that I'm kind of disturbed at is actually being on the television, acting, being in something that's mainstream.
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.
There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.
This is a business that I have always had the last laugh in.It has nothing to do with acting, it has to do with good karma.
You never know what's going to happen. That's why I like acting. It's precious to me to be able to live more than one life.
Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.
I am human and get insecure because I am a middle class man and I need to feed my family and acting is the only job I know.
I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.
As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.
That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.
Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.
People assume that displaying your own personal ego on screen is called acting, which is actually not what acting is about.
I used to represent Mount Carmel College in cultural activities, and a friend in the team told me to try my hand at acting.