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"If you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. You can't have all that you want if you remain the person you are. To get more from life, you need to be more in life."
"Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true."
"There was [really] little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face."
"I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life."
"I needed to put something together that would continually get me up at 4:30 in the morning, get me to work and get me excited to throw on those costumes - which clearly continue to excite me, if you are a viewer of the show - and circumstances that continue to surprise me and ask me to go places acting-wise that I haven't explored before."
"I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us."
"Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force."
"We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time."
"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action."
"So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting."
"To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life."
"Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time."
"I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head."
"Acting is everybody's favorite second job."
"So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life."
"Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four."
"You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold."
"Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!"
"Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'"
"The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys."
