That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.
Stephen Rea
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When I started acting I knew nothing. It was a momentous decision to pick up the flyer for the 'Trainspotting' audition. 'Destined' is a bit of a poncy word for it, but I do think I was headed in that direction.
Kelly Macdonald
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I did my share of kid acting, like lots of us do. I even played King Herod when I was 6, but when I got to the end of my school period, that was it.
Theo James
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One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.
Michael Shannon
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I love this acting stuff.
Harvey Martin
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I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course.
David Thewlis
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So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
Ralph Fiennes
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I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.
William Hurt
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When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.
James Garner
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
Carla Gugino
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When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.
Anna Chlumsky
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I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.
Mark Salling
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Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.
Blythe Danner
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Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.
Robert Carlyle
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I definitely caught the acting bug, but that lasted for about two seconds when I found my way to L.A. and found that my talents were better suited behind the cameras.
Lee Daniels
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When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
Zoey Deutch
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After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.
Brady Corbet
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The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
Jacki Weaver
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I love being physical and acting at the same time.
Jennifer Garner
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I really don't have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around. But it's only acting.
Tiffani Thiessen
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Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.
Eric Bana
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Once an economy reaches a certain level of acceleration... the Fed is no longer with you... The Fed, instead of trying to get the economy moving, reverts to acting like the central bankers they are and starts worrying about inflation and things getting too hot.
Stanley Druckenmiller
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I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.
Kirstie Alley
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