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“I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.”

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Author:Barry Levinson

“Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.”

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Author:Brie Larson

“Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.”

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Author:Christopher Lambert

“I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.”

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Author:Diane Lane

“There is no right in acting.”

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Author:Frank Langella

“You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.”

Acting Spite Neurosis

Author:Frank Langella

“I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn't the centre of my life.”

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Author:David Oyelowo

“I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.”

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Author:Aubrey Plaza

“My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.”

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Author:Clarke Peters

“My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.”

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Author:Michael Pena

“Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it’s nice to go, Well, I’m gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling. You don’t get to do that on television.”

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Author:Sarah Paulson

“Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.”

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Author:Tyler Posey

“I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.”

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Author:Vincent Piazza

“For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.”

Writing Different Acting Reviews Compulsion

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.”

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Author:Archie Panjabi

“I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.”

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Author:Archie Panjabi

“What I'm having is this conflict in my life right now, that in New York, I see my directing friends and I see acting friends and they've all got this level of passion about either or both of those directions that I've never really found myself having.”

Passion Found Levels Acting New York Right Now Conflict Either Or

Author:Danny Pintauro

“My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.”

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Author:Franka Potente

“But sovereign debt is a wider question not only in Europe but across the globe. While every country is a unique case, I think it's not an issue of countries acting on their own. We need a more coordinated strategy not only in Europe but around the world.”

Thinking World Needs Country Acting Cases Issues Unique Europe Strategy Debt Around The World Globes Sovereign

Author:George Papandreou

“Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain.”

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Author:Jason Priestley

“I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.”

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Author:Jesse Plemons

“When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.”

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Author:Jim Parsons

“For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.”

Acting Building Parachutes

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.”

Feels Process Enjoy Acting

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.”

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Author:Kay Panabaker

“Each song, you're telling a story and acting.”

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Author:Patti Page

“I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.”

I Can Speak Acting Cases

Author:Teresa Palmer

“I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.”

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Author:Teresa Palmer

“I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.”

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Author:Megan Fox

“I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.”

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Author:Amy Ryan

“Acting has always been such escapism for me.”

Acting Escapism

Author:Kelly Reilly

“I'd prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.”

Acting Radar Being Famous

Author:Kelly Reilly

“I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.”

Acting Identity Crisis Identity Crisis

Author:Matthew Rhys

“If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.”

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Author:Alfonso Ribeiro

“By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.”

School Acting Careers High School Favors Forsaken

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.”

Acting Listening Harder Hardest

Author:Brett Ratner

“I think there's something to be said for being physical in acting.”

Thinking Said Acting Blackberries Needing Someone

Author:Crystal Reed

“If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.”

Want Should Artist Acting Injustice Crafts Aesthetic Honing

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“It was extremely useful to grow up in front of the camera. It gives the camera no significance. I think it helped me have perspective on things. The attraction that Hollywood can have, I feel like I'm over that. Instead I just concentrate on acting.”

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Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I started acting, almost on a whim to help my music career.”

Helping Acting Careers Whim Music Career

Author:Lance Reddick

“I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.”

Acting Hollywood Grownups

Author:Lee Remick

“When I was a kid, I was into psychological thrillers. When I was 12, my favorite movie was 'Thirteen.' I just really liked movies that showed an extreme range in acting. That's what made me want to become an actress.”

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Author:Leven Rambin

“It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.”

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Author:Mary Lynn Rajskub

“I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.”

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Author:Noomi Rapace

“Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.”

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Author:Phylicia Rashad

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