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The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.
As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.
I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.
You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.
Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.
I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so fun acting it.
As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.
That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.
I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.
After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].
I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.
If I didn't have Chip Gaines in my life, I'd still be dreaming in my head - but not acting out on any of that, not living it out.
I learned acting while doing my shows. I never joined any course or anything. I just jumped into acting. I learn from experience.
I get too involved with my job. If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.
Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.
If you go into acting to make money then you're an idiot. It's my hobby and the fact that I'm doing my hobby for a job is mental.
All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.
My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.
It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.
I've never lost my love for acting. I feel really at home on the movie set. I'm a more balanced person honestly when I'm working.
In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards.
I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights.
You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.
Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.
Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.
I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting.
I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.
Acting seems much easier than singing, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here you are taking everything off.
The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.
I feel like I've reached a point where music has become just as much a priority to me as my acting, and I'm glad to feel that way.
Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.
Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.
As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.
My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.
Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.