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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.
Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.
Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.
The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach acting from a podium.
Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.
I would not want compliments that 'I can do different roles'. I want compliments that whatever I did, I did nicely. That's how I see acting.
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.
One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.
I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.
I find that as long as I'm acting it doesn't matter if it's for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I'm doing.
As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.
When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing
For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.
I say I’m not shy, but… Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you’ve got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.
If I hadn't gone into acting, I would have been one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard. No, it'd be uglier. I'd probably be dead.
There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.
Singing has always been something that I've loved to do, but I never thought about doing, professionally. I always felt more drawn to acting.
I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.
I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.
Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.
Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I've worked with.
Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater.
We have raised significant concerns about the way that China and individuals acting on behalf of the state of China have acted in cyberspace.
My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.
You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.
I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.
If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.
Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?
Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.
I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.
I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me.So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.
One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it.
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.
I was so glad I did Beauty and the Beast. I always wanted to act, and if the bankruptcy thing hadn't happened, I wouldn't have started acting.
There was [really] little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face.
I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.
They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.
I feel like I'm always being challenged by my voice acting roles, for multiple different reasons. I still get nervous every time I book a gig.
I was happy because I was acting. Most of the time for nothing. But I was learning and to learn that you can learn opens up the world for you.
After moving back to LA, I definitely would love to go to school and do more music in between acting as well as finally learning how to drive!
There's so much you can achieve with a launching pad like stand-up comedy. You can literally go from acting to hosting to being a personality.
For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.
The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real.
It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.