I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.
~By Sasha Alexander ~
Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
~By Gary Miller ~
It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.
~By Lauren Graham ~
Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
~By Aimee Mann ~
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
~By Sophocles ~
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
~By Corliss Lamont ~
But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
~By Laura Innes ~
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
~By Meryl Streep ~
There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.
~By Corin Nemec ~
I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
~By Gary Coleman ~
I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!
~By Richard E. Grant ~
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
~By Eugene Delacroix ~
It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
~By Randy Harrison ~
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.
~By Eliza Dushku ~
I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
~By Tim Robbins ~
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
~By Joan Chen ~
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
~By Carl Jung ~
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
~By James Earl Jones ~
Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.
~By Zoe Saldana ~
If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare.
~By John Lithgow ~
The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.
~By Olivier Martinez ~
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
~By Aristotle ~
Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.
~By Hailee Steinfeld ~
I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
~By John Boorman ~
In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.
~By Robin Tunney ~
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
~By Omar N. Bradley ~
So for me having that element of being able to be competitive wasn't a problem. I'm very competitive. I thought if I could skate first, acting would come second. I could say my lines and then go do what I was saying. You don't have to fake it, you're not really acting.
~By John Robinson ~
I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.
~By Emma Stone ~
A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.
~By Albert Finney ~
Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
~By John Hurt ~
The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
~By Eddie Marsan ~
That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
~By Melissa Leo ~
I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.
~By Elizabeth Pena ~
When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing.
~By Joseph Gordon-Levitt ~
First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.
~By Neil LaBute ~
I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.
~By Jane Badler ~
Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
~By Alex Borstein ~
I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.
~By Mark Goddard ~
I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
~By William Shatner ~
Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
~By John Gielgud ~
It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.
~By Aishwarya Rai ~
We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That's why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they're going to get a band hat on, and say people aren't acting the right way?
~By Kim Deal ~
One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
~By David Duchovny ~
I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.
~By Maria Menounos ~
Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.
~By Tom Wilkinson ~
I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.
~By Ally Sheedy ~
I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.
~By Vic Mignogna ~
Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.
~By Arthur Lowe ~
I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
~By Robert Redford ~
Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet.
~By Chris Brown ~
A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.
~By Alexis Bledel ~
Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on my acting.
~By Van Heflin ~
I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
~By Dan Castellaneta ~
But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
~By Dabney Coleman ~
Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
~By Pierce Brosnan ~
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in Conversations With My Father! I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.
~By David Krumholtz ~
America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.
~By Hayden Christensen ~
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
~By Diane Cilento ~
Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
~By William Law ~
It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
~By Aaliyah ~
I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.
~By Alex Morrison ~
Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.
~By Ajay Naidu ~
I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
~By Sophocles ~
When I began my search for the perfect skin care to fight the aging process, I noticed that my sensitive skin was reacting horribly to any product I used.
~By Connie Sellecca ~
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
~By Martin Van Creveld ~
With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.
~By Helen Slater ~
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
~By George Eliot ~
While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.
~By Dinah Sheridan ~
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.
~By Dougray Scott ~
Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment.
~By Tina Yothers ~
I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting.
~By Judy Holliday ~
Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.
~By Charles S. Dutton ~
And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.
~By David Cronenberg ~
I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.
~By Chris Noth ~
Acting doesn't suffice.
~By Rod Taylor ~
I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.
~By Sylvia Kristel ~
Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.
~By John Amery ~
I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.
~By Kim Hunter ~
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
~By Ted Turner ~
Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.
~By Mike Epps ~
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
~By Rachael Leigh Cook ~
I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.
~By Connie Sellecca ~
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
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