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“Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.”

People Giving Real Chance Acting Give Me Real Life Who I Am Give Me A Chance

“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.”

Giving Lasts Film Hours Acting Week Seven Finished Cosmic Permission Seven Days

Author:Scott Glenn

“Acting Government officials, they said they wanted - they would be happy, they would love to put a bullet in my head, to poison me as I was returning from the grocery store, and have me die in the shower.”

Said Government Would Be Wanted Dies Acting Stores Officials Poison Showers Bullets They Said Groceries Grocery Stores Government Officials

Author:Edward Snowden

“Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.”

Social Acting Scene Band Theater Fallen Nerd Geek Merry

Author:Adam Baldwin

“Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.”

Way Acting Careers Hobbies Another Way

Author:Malcolm-Jamal Warner

“Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately looking for love and not finding anyone.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Acting Happened Findings Bars Pursued Looking For Love

Author:Keri Russell

“Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way.”

Way America Strong Acting Quality Profession Sensual Fantastic Kicks

Author:Erland Josephson

“Acting has always been a passion of mine, so any opportunity that allows me to do that is definitely of interest to me.”

Passion Opportunity Interest Acting Mines

Author:Nick Jonas

“Acting has always been my passion. It's always been my love, and I've always done it, since I was a kid.”

Done Kids Passion Acting My Passion

Author:Tanc Sade

“Acting has always been something for me that's been a romp. I just show up and I have a good time, and I hope that I get through the day and I can have lunch in the sun.”

I Can Shows Acting Sun Good Times Lunch Having A Good Time

Author:George Hamilton

“Acting has always been such escapism for me.”

Acting Escapism

Author:Kelly Reilly

“Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.”

People Jobs Bits Acting Cases Style Normal Normal Life

Author:Felicity Jones

“Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.”

Has Beens Acting Disguise

Author:Peter O'Toole

“Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.”

Ifs Has Beens Would Be Actors Acting Scandal Bourgeoisie

Author:Julian Sands

“Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.”

Heart Has Beens Given Acting Support Broken Lovers My Heart My Lover Confidant

Author:Sally Field

“Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens I Can Wanted School Young Passion Can Do Acting Minutes Stage High School First Time Doctors Theater My Passion Freshman Day Life I Can Do This

Author:Sophia Bush

“Acting has been the only thing so far that really gets me jazzed. It's like my girlfriend in a lot of ways. We fight. We have a relationship, and she gets me up every morning. I'm inspired by it, and I want to one day be really good at it and see what we can do together.”

Way Want Has Beens Together Fighting Can Do Acting Morning One Day Inspired Girlfriend Every Morning My Girlfriend

Author:Eddie Cahill

“Acting has been very useful to me.”

Has Beens Acting

Author:Jane Asher

“Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.”

Way Inspirational Feels Motivational Kids Actors Given Acting Creative Lucky Findings Access Insecurity Angst Overweight

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.”

Character Lost Acting Football Scene Getting Lost

Author:Thomas Jones

“Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.”

People Character Helping Actors Acting Being True

Author:Steve Martin

“Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Important Lines Acting

Author:Christopher Walken

“Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.”

Thinking Knows Feelings Actors Levels Acting Judging Communication Concerned

Author:Meryl Streep

“Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I'm very, very grateful; it's a fun job. It's a luxury.”

Jobs Fun Acting Growing Up Growing Wonderful Grateful Luxury Wonderful Things

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).”

People Form Acting Dangerous Praise Humble Showing Off

Author:Omar Suleiman

“Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.”

Want Wells Stuff Acting Forever Produce

Author:Michael B. Jordan

“Acting in "Star Wars," I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.”

Knows War Stars Felt Acting Fruit Giants Salad Raisins Fruit Salad

Author:Mark Hamill

“Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the actor provides the river. The river is the actor's thoughts and emotions.”

Actors Acting Emotion Scene Rivers Beach Thoughts And Emotions Paddling

Author:Sanford Meisner

“Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.”

Acting Comedy Routine Sitcom Setups Comedy Movie

Author:Bill Burr

“Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.”

Play Acting Stage Office Evening Stage Play

Author:Arthur Smith

“Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.”

People Needs Loss Acting Hatred Anger Rely Rely Upon

Author:Luke Ford

“Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same”

Feels Film Acting Changed

Author:Shelley Duvall

“Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you're having to really do it seriously and there's nothing there. You've got to put faith in the process.”

Feels Kind Process Acting Feet Stupid Pretending Riding Rolling Ants

Author:Paul Rudd

“Acting in particular is a fun job when you have a good script. I don't know about acting when you don't have a great script. I'm gonna say that's not a great job, it's kind of a dumb job. But when you have a good part in a good script, it's the best job, in a way.”

Knows Way Kind Jobs Fun Acting Particular Scripts Dumb Best Job Great Job

Author:Bob Odenkirk

“Acting in the movies is just like ditch-digging”

Acting Digging

Author:Margaret Sullavan

“Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.”

Needs Choices Acting Television Theatre Screens Diseased Smitten

Author:Michael Shurtleff

Source: Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

“Acting is a bit like being an athlete. You spend all your time getting ready to do something for two minutes. All the things that made my career in the movies happen took two or three minutes, which is the time that it takes for a 'take'. In that time, something happens. That's what people know you for, just like someone running the hundred metres.”

People Knows Made Two Happens Running Three Bits Acting Careers Minutes Ready Hundred Athlete

Author:Christopher Walken

“Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can't really do it on your own.”

Bits Acting Tennis

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.”

Heart Kind Soul Bits Acting Exercise Heart And Soul

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“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.”

Feels Political Acting Audience Military Crafts

Author:Adam Driver

“Acting is a career without a safety net, because it's not like a professional job where every year you hope to be promoted, and get a sense of career stability. There is never any stability in this business.”

Acting Safety Stability Safety Net

Author:Naomie Harris

“Acting is a challenge at times. I mean, when you have scenes where you're jumping into a mascot bear to travel back in time, and you try to make that seem real. For me, I'm a person that has a pretty wild imagination, just kind of letting that run wild and sort of just doing the best you can to not feel stupid.”

Feels Trying Kind Mean Persons Real Seems Running Imagination Challenges Acting Stupid Bears Scene Jumping Back In Time Mascots Wild Imagination

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.”

Thinking Kind Reality Imagination Acting Exercise Breathe Willingness

Author:Walton Goggins

“Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.”

People Children Seems Actors Grows Born Acting Growing Up Never Quit Prerogative

Author:Joanne Woodward

“Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.”

Needs Actors Acting Study Crafts

Author:Jason Ritter

“Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn't mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter - but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Persons Actors Process Acting Creative Awareness Musician Profession Painter Creative Process Creative People Creative Person Creative Business

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyones going Hey! and the next theyre going Who?. You certainly dont need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.”

People Ifs Want Needs Stills Enough Next Acting Knowing Minutes Hey One Minute

Author:Jack Davenport

“Acting is a different discipline. On stage I'm free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.”

Different Acting Stage Discipline Please Very Good

Author:Billy Connolly

“Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection.”

People Want May Different Might Song Actors Difficult Acting Roles Records Five Four Singing Hundred Painful Profession Rejection

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“Acting is a form of confession.”

Form Acting Confession

Author:Tallulah Bankhead

Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography

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