I did roles that I hated, and there were roles that were detrimental to my acting ability. There were roles that I was always doing that were always the comic relief... it was destroying my soul.
Taika Waititi
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I was always passionate about acting.
Ashish Sharma
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I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.
June Squibb
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I do find acting cathartic.
Francesca Annis
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I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.
Maxine Peake
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I love acting - I love doing it. It's a lot of fun, but for the longest time, I wanted to become a firefighter. I still do want to become a firefighter.
Ryan Potter
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I don't love acting enough to give up my life.
Charlie Korsmo
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I started playing violin when I was six, so I thought I could be a professional. It wasn't until I was 15 when I got into acting classes and realized this was what I wanted to do.
Torrey DeVitto
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In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.
Paul Greengrass
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Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
Judy Holliday
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I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.
Edward Burns
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I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.
Colin Baker
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I sang when I was in primary school, and I did singing at Sylvia Young: no acting at all.
Lashana Lynch
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In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
Jesse Eisenberg
YourselfYouActingClassMuch
I enjoy acting, and I would love to do a play in the future.
Shenaz Treasury
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I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.
Ethan Embry
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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
Barbra Streisand
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I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.
John Sayles
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Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.
Keri Russell
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A career in film didn't seem like something I could attain. Whereas I grew up next to New York City, and I spent my life going into New York City seeing plays, and I was a theater actor in school. Acting on the stage felt really natural to me, and I liked it, and I wasn't terrible at it.
Will McCormack
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I didn't pursue acting as a career until I got my first job. I didn't think I could make a living at it. You hear such horror stories about how hard it is to get work as an actor. It is hard, but I decided to roll with it.
Mary Page Keller
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I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.
Gene Wilder
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If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.
Donna Brazile
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When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
Salma Hayek
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