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With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.
Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers.
...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.
I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.
That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.
My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score.
Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.
I realize that acting is my job, and I have a life outside of my career to help keep me grounded. It is great to have a job you love!
the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things.
Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.
I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.
How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?
The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.
Insiders say Obama's pretty comfortable around actors. He should be. He has been 'acting' like he was born in Hawaii for a long time.
In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.
What I've learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can trip you up.
Honestly, I don't aspire to be a huge movie star. I really just fell in love with acting... Everything I do on-screen is very subtle.
Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.
I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.
And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!
I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.
I'd like to be a weak, boring housewife. Because then it would involve more acting. It would be challenging to do something like that.
Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.
I remember the actor Dale Robertson said he quit acting when he got tired of having to hold his stomach in. I feel that way sometimes.
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.
I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.
For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.
I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.
I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.
I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows.
The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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.
Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.
... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.
Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.
Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.
Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing.
I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.
Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.
I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.