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“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

“I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.”

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Author:Alessandro Nivola

“The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.”

People Want Acting Offers Method Routes Method Acting

Author:Corin Nemec

“I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.”

People Trying Bigs Causes Loses Acting Stink

Author:Haley Joel Osment

“It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.”

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Author:Miranda Otto

“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

“The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.”

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Author:Tania Raymonde

“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.”

“For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.”

People Way Stories Spirit Stuff Acting

Author:Ving Rhames

“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”

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Book:The Works of Anatole France in English: My friend's book

Source: The Works of Anatole France in English: My friend's book

“The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“But 'Hey Dude' was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left.”

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Author:Christine Taylor

“I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.”

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Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.”

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Author:Mark Wahlberg