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The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.
Faith is acting in the face of contrary evidence. The senses declare, "It cannot be," but Faith shouts above the turmoil, "It is!"
I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.
If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.
I've been asked repeatedly what the 'key' to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep the audience awake.
My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.
I kind of hid acting from my dad because I knew what he thought about acting at the time. His advice was "Don't do it," basically.
Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.
When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.
What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition.
If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity.
I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.
I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
My mom put me into a performing arts elementary school back in Cincinnati, so I started studying acting in school when I was seven.
I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.
The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.
With acting there are a lot more choices, With this, I either stick it or I don't. There's something really unforgiving about that.
I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.
Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.
We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.
While acting in 'W,' my worries about the way I act settled down. I also discovered another side of myself. It was a turning point.
You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.
Acting is one of the most risky businesses you could ever be in. You literally do not know where your next paycheck will come from.
I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.
Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.
I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.
I am very excited about 'Raees.' But more than this, I am nervous, too. It feels like I am under pressure to show my acting skills.
I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.
I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort, and so I could remain in a fantasy world.
Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too.
I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.
Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.
The internet has been incredible in regards to the selling of my CD. I don't know how it's affected or will affect my acting career.
To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.
I could feel the real interaction between directing and acting, when an actor or an actress really suggests very interesting things.
The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.
When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.
I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.
You know what’s more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.
I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.
Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?
'Smallville' gig was another one of those things I got through WWE. At that point, I had absolutely no aspirations to pursue acting.
My acting coach breaks down what happens to people's bodies when they do drugs. She breaks down what happens physiologically to you.