"I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them."
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"The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]"
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"You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera."
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"Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them."
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"I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion."
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"Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts."
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"With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature."
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"Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting."
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"When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it."
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"it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear"
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"I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.” I stare at him for a second. I can’t help it. To me there’s a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does."
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"I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe."
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"I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me."
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"I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun."
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"I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting."
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"I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test."
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"Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work."
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"That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves."
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"I don't think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors."
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"It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked."
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