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“I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.”

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Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“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

“If you accentuate yourself, thinking or acting like you are important, then you must want to look good to someone in this world. In order to impress or sway anybody in this world, you have to be in this world yourself.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!”

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Author:Erland Josephson

“Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.”

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Author:Jose Padilha

“Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting.”

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Author:Ben Kingsley

“The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.”

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Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.”

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Author:Adam Garcia

“The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.”

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Author:Reggie Watts

“Believing in yourself you gain confidence, which allows you to relax. Relaxation is one of the most important parts about acting.”

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Author:Emile Hirsch

“As an actor, it's always important to understand what the director is after. That, to me, is my job. When I'm acting, I like to ask a lot of questions and understand exactly why the director is doing what they're doing, so that I can provide him or her with the ingredients that they need to get the scene that they want. It's not to challenge them, in any way. It's just so that I can do my job best.”

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.”

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Author:Amanda Schull

“For almost every character I've played in the 43 years I've been working as a professional actor, I've found parts of myself. We are all bipolar in the tiniest essence of what it is. We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important.”

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Author:Sally Field

“Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.”

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Author:Alexander Gould

“Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.”

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Author:Ashley Greene

“I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.”

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Author:Ashley Greene

“One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.”

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Author:Jonah Hill

“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

“Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.”

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“Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.”

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Author:Tyne Daly

“The most important thing to having a long career, as an actor, is diversity and being able to play different types of characters in different types of movies. I want to keep acting, all my life. In order to do that, I think it is important to go and do the bigger tentpole box office movies, and then also do more character roles.”

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Author:Josh Hutcherson

“We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.”

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Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“I'm a much better listener when I'm acting than I am as a person in real life because you learn as an actor that listening is so important. You have to really key into what the other person you're acting with is saying and how they're saying it and react in the moment to what is going on.”

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Author:Rainn Wilson

“It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.”

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Author:Val Kilmer

“I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.”

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Author:Gaby Hoffmann

“I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.”

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Author:Vivien Leigh

“Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.”

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Author:Ezra Miller

“I love film acting - I'm not snobby about it. I don't think that theater acting's a more noble profession. I think they're both very important. I love both. And in my dream world, I'd get to do both forever.”

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Author:Rebecca Hall

“I think that it's important not to take [acting] too seriously. It's all pretend. It's a strange job.”

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Author:Michael Pitt

“I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too much importance of stuff. But I do say to actors when I have taught in classes, or when I sometimes do a talk to a group. I'll say, “If I never acted again, the world wouldn't stop, nor would it stop if I didn't stop acting. That's how important it is. I know it [seems] important when you're young. But I say, “Lighten up. Don't take it all so seriously.” All the gurus and teachers will take your money and run.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Any work I do I think is important...like in acting there are no small parts- only small actors.”

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Author:Holly Golightly

“I love acting, but directing and writing have always been just as important. I started to write so many things when I was even a child. I wrote my first play when I was, like, seven years old. That was me - a writer - for years.”

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Author:Melanie Laurent

“I certainly very much enjoy acting, but I am open to anything really. I think it's important when you have those moments in life when you are not attached to something, and you are not quite sure what the next phase of your journey is going to look like, that you don't pigeon-hole yourself.”

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Author:James Scott

“I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.”

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Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.”

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Author:Ted Turner

“I want to be acting until the day I die. I want to be in movies and working with people who push me to be a better actor. That's what I look forward to, and that's what's important to me.”

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Author:Kellan Lutz

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