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“A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.”

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Author:Ben Schwartz

“Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.”

Ifs Acting Attention Listening Pay Attention Reacting

Author:Reid Scott

“I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.”

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Author:Elle Fanning

“When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldnt be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to LA and continue to pursue the acting thing.”

Ifs Able School Parent Acting High School Caught Pursue Lied

Author:Dan Byrd

“Its hard for me to listen to any actors whine or moan about anything acting-related because look at the world. We really have nothing to complain about. Just to be working is a blessing.”

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Author:Dan Byrd

“I had a great acting teacher in high school. But I didnt like acting because it took too many people to get the job done. You have to talk to too many people and listen to others opinions. With music, you get a few friends together and just make it.”

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Author:Hugh Dillon

“If I wasn't acting, I would probably be working with children. I was a camp counselor growing up and I loved it.”

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Author:Julianne Nicholson

“Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.”

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Author:Rufus Sewell

“I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.”

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Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“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.”

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Author:Rex Harrison

“I believe acting is very physical, and when you have to fight or do those kinds of things, it takes a lot of respect not to allow yourself to go off and hurt yourself or someone else.”

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Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.”

Ifs Kind Acting Fantasy Realistic Naturalism

Author:Gene Wilder

“Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.”

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Author:Gene Wilder

“The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.”

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Author:Francesco Guicciardini

“I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, Whats the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting? It didnt make sense to me anymore. Its not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.”

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Author:Taylor Schilling

“I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is.”

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Author:Irene Dunne

“Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the directors eyes, you get it right does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.”

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Author:Mara Wilson

“I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.”

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Author:Mara Wilson

“In acting, you are fulfilled if you give justice to your role... if you are able to do a credible performance and touch the audience. Same with directing. If you are able to draw out the best from your actors, then you fulfill your job as a director.”

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Author:Timothy Hutton

“I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.”

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Author:Nat Wolff

“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.”

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Author:Laurence Fox

“There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.”

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Author:Laurence Fox

“Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.”

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Author:Laurence Fox

“If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besides that Twilight thing?'”

People Ifs Ideas Hate Acting One Day Twilight

Author:Robert Pattinson

“Cosmopolis is the movie of my life. I didn't consider myself an actor before, even if I had 10 years of acting behind me. I always felt like a fraud, and inappropriate. I doubt a lot. David Cronenberg gave me confidence in myself. He changed my way of acting and thinking in this industry.”

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Author:Robert Pattinson

“I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that Im so completely in the back seat.”

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Author:Natascha McElhone

“I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.”

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Author:Sam Rockwell

“Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.”

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Author:Jeanne Moreau

“For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?”

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Author:Julia Garner

“I like to do stuff for my brothers and sisters to appreciate because they look up to me, and for other kids around the world who want to get into acting or who just want to have somebody to look up to.”

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Author:Kyla Pratt

“I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.”

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Author:Rupert Graves

“As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.”

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Author:Jesse L. Martin

“I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.”

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Author:Vinnie Jones

“I always want to try new things, and 'Mean Machine' has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on acting and would love to play all sorts of roles - you'll see that there's more strings to my bow!”

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Author:Vinnie Jones

“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.”

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Author:Charles Grodin

“In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.”

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Author:Matthew Rhys

“I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.”

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Author:Matthew Rhys

“Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.”

People Film Young Actors Views Acting Quality Watches Messages Rubies Good Acting

Author:Brian J. White

“Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.”

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Author:Brian J. White

“I had an amazing experience doing 'Skins.' It was the first acting I'd ever done in my entire life, so I had to learn on set for those two years. I had to keep my head screwed on and learn from the other cast.”

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Author:Mitch Hewer

“I really like acting in English.”

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Author:Romain Duris

“I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.”

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Author:Trevor Donovan

“I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.”

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Author:Nathan Gamble

“I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.”

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Author:Charlene Tilton

“I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.”

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Author:Steve Valentine

“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.”

People Trying Process Acting Tick

Author:Riz Ahmed

“My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.”

Character Acting Roles Music Is Reflection

Author:Riz Ahmed

“The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.”

People Film Acting Doubt Late Music Is Sincerity Being Myself Film Acting

Author:Riz Ahmed

“Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.”

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Author:Bryan Batt

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