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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life.
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.
My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.
Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.
In a lot of ways, I was kind of crossing lines of what I thought I was comfortable doing. I had to do all this naked stuff.
I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.
Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.
I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.
Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.
I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.
Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!
You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.
Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
With acting, the response is usually delayed and takes time, unlike with singing, from where I instantly get fans' response.
For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.
I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.
You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.
I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.
I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.
The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.
You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.
I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.
The thing I love about acting is getting to change and look at different people in different lives and do different projects.
I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar.
Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.
Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.
You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen.
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?
The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.
All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.
Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide.
I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun - I liked it for an actual job.
My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.
Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.
The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.
I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.
To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.
If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
Acting is a career, and you can't expect everything to work out the way you want. One has to be mature enough to handle that.
I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.
I think the first time I realized I was actually acting was during Felicity. Before that, I was just going along for the ride.