"Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished."
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"Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds."
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"Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting."
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"I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally."
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"I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting."
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"You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember."
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"It's fun to get back to acting."
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"I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting."
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"By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life."
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"Everyone is acting from his own level of consciousness. This is all we can ask of ourselves or anyone else. However hurtful someone is, he is doing the best he can, given the limits of his consciousness."
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"And I don’t want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn’t have built the confidence to do acting if I didn’t model."
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"Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems."
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"I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And, I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will."
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"We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire."
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"You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity."
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"Come on, I know bad acting when I hear it."
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"That's where you can find things and modulate your performance and give the other actors something fresh to respond to. We've probably all worked with actors who when it's suddenly your close up, they get sleepy. I don't like that. It's selfish acting, and I won't tolerate it."
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"As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character."
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"When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities."
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"Getting up early and setting myself daily targets, even outside of acting, keeps me active and motivated in general and thus happier, which I hope translates into my personality and my work."
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