"I don't love acting; I love chocolate."
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"Vary the pace. ... it is one of the foundations of all good acting."
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"Ah just act the way ah feel."
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"I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies."
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"Acting is telling the truth under imaginary circumstances. I cannot think of a worse way to describe acting. Also, I'm the worst liar ever."
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"I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater."
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"It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid."
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"Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that."
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"When I'm onstage doing standup, no one yells "Cut!" or tells me what to do. I'm DeRay, and I use my own words. With acting, you're portraying a character with someone else's words. Still, you definitely want to inject a little of yourself into every role."
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"I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that"
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"Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting."
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"The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he beforehand anticipates. In a moral point of view, the effect ought to be, to teach him good-humored patience, freedom from selfishness, the habit of acting for himself, and of making the best of every occurrence."
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"I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous."
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"I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep."
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"One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself."
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"Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated."
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"Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious."
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"Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type."
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"I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really."
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"Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it."
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