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“I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.”

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Author:Martine McCutcheon

“I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally.”

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Author:Rose McGowan

“Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

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Author:George Papandreou

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

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Author:Crystal Reed

“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

“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

“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

“Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.”

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Author:Michael Shannon

“I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.”

Thinking Acting Huge Substitution

Author:Charlize Theron

“So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.”

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Author:Lea Thompson

“Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.”

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Author:James Franco

“That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.”

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Book:Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business

Source: Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business

“I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.”

Thinking Knows World Way Want Ideas Facts Actors Acting Posts De Niro

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.”

Thinking Acting Lifetime Attractive

Author:Brit Marling

“I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.”

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Author:Thomas McDonell

“Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.”

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Author:Anthony Mackie

“I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.”

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Author:Elliot Cowan

“I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.”

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Author:Joe Frazier

“Being Christian is not just obeying orders but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him; it means letting him take possession of our life and change it, transform it, and free it from the darkness of evil and sin. ... Let us show the joy of being children of God, the freedom that living in Christ gives us which is true freedom, the freedom that saves us from the slavery of evil, of sin and of death!”

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Author:Pope Francis

“I’m pissed off at my Republican family back in North Carolina, several of whom came to my wedding, but who went right back and are voting for homophobes and acting like it doesn’t matter. It does matter and it’s time for the queers in this country to start saying so to their families. I think we’ve all cut them too much slack for far too long.”

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Author:Armistead Maupin

“I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act.”

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Author:Jacquelyn Jablonski

“I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.”

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Author:Edi Gathegi

“Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.”

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Author:Yul Vazquez

“If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?”

“Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.”

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Author:Bill Skarsgard

“It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.”

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Author:Alanna Ubach

“You must allow yourself to start thinking BIGGER and acting BOLDER with regards to what's possible for you. Seriously. Don't wait. Start now.”

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Author:Hal Elrod

“Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That's really who you are. I think that's why some artists have stage names, you know? I don't have a stage name, it's pretty much just me.”

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Author:Clinton D. Powell

“Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company.”

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Author:Ester Dean

“With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.”

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Author:Ruth Wilson

“When you do bigger jobs there's more attention and when you film in New York you get loads of paparazzi everywhere. It affects your work because you're trying to think about the person you're acting with and you've got 20 other lenses taking pictures of you at the same time, and it throws you.”

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Author:Carey Mulligan

“Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you're only acting facets of yourself. I think there's a lot of truth in that.”

Thinking Persons Said Acting Facets

Author:Nathan Fillion

“I think that acting can be a very pressurized existence. So when I'm not working, I spend very loose and unpressurized time and I like to meet people who have a similar attitude.”

People Thinking Acting Existence Attitude

Author:Nathan Fillion

“Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.”

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Author:Common

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.”

“It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This is not expressing yourself. If you know what to do exactly, and you do it, then you can express yourself fully.”

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Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.”

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Book:Human action: a treatise on economics

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction.”

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Book:Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 1: The Subject-Matter and Problems of the Doctrine of of Reconciliation

Source: Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 1: The Subject-Matter and Problems of the Doctrine of of Reconciliation

“Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.”

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Author:Steve Pavlina

“If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.”

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Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about twenty-five I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.”

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Author:James Gandolfini

“Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not.”

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Author:Morgan Freeman

“The nature of acting is that one is many characters and jumps from one skin to another as a way of life. Sometimes it's hard to know exactly what all of your characters think at the same time. Sometimes one of my characters overrules one of my other characters. I'm trying to get them all to harmonize. It's a hell of a job. It's like driving a coach.”

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Author:Anjelica Huston

“That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

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