"I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it."
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"I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting."
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"When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter."
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"I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique."
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"It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me."
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"Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more."
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"If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act."
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"In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a lot of screaming crying kids acting out in a restaurant in Italy. They don't put up with that."
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"Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office."
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"Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world."
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"Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into."
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"What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head."
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"Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live."
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"Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest."
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"I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well, but is intensely rewarding. Particularly the chance to help draw out the best in young actors."
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"Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor."
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"I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater."
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"I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician."
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"I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction."
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"A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic."
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