"Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same"
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"Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone."
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"With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film."
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"I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been."
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"Maybe the the luxury of not having acting be my only profession is that I can be more selective about what I choose to be in. I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect."
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"Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven."
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"I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang."
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"I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting."
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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
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"I don't like acting; not in front of the camera."
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"Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing is more of an accomplishment."
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"Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary."
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"If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing."
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"Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting."
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"I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression."
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"If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act."
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"With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up."
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"I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that."
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"I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor.' And she said, 'Maybe not that.'"
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"It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately."
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