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I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
I went to NYU, and my parents had a rule that I needed to major in something other than acting if I wanted to pursue acting after college.
I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.
When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.
Dude, writing, acting and directing are such easy jobs. But to do them all as awesomely as Zach Braff does, well that... that's something.
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.
In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.
My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage.
Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.
I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.
Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.
I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what's possible.
When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.
No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.
I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.
One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.
Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.
I can't say I don't like acting, but I can't imagine a career when I have to spend 70 percent of my time in a trailer eating Snickers bars.
As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.
Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.
I have a lot of energy, and as you get to know me, you will quickly learn that! I channel my energy into my acting, my writing, everything.
What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.
Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous.
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week.
You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.
The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.
When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
I have only been acting since I was about eighteen. I couldn't imagine doing anything else. I don't think there is anything else I could do.
I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.
I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.
Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
I hate acting classes. I did a few, but I've always hated acting classes. I prefer to just watch a movie or watch TV and take it from there.
I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.
I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, it sort of chose me more than I chose it.
I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.
I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.
I wasn't nervous at all. I applied the same amount of efforts to the love scenes as I did to the skating and the acting and everything else.
I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.
So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.