"On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person."
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"When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting."
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"My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant."
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"I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people."
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"That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me."
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"With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant."
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"I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre."
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"I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself."
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"I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin."
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"Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that."
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"I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me."
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"When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it."
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"If I wasn't acting, I would probably be working with children. I was a camp counselor growing up and I loved it."
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"Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known."
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"I fell completely in love with acting. I guess I was bitten."
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"One thing that I'm kind of disturbed at is actually being on the television, acting, being in something that's mainstream."
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"Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about."
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"Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have."
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"I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago."
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"After moving back to LA, I definitely would love to go to school and do more music in between acting as well as finally learning how to drive!"
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