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"Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?"
"I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life."
"Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side."
"This nation loves singing and loves acting."
"My first acting job was a Breck commercial."
"I once read a quote that I think was Michelle Pfeiffer in an article, who said that she thought people went into acting because maybe if you could convince millions of people to like you, you will finally like yourself, approve of yourself. I don't know if that may have been a part of it."
"Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?"
"I'd also take any acting job...well, not any acting job, that's not true. I'd take a cool acting job."
"I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa."
"I started working on how I would direct this a year before we started shooting "All We Had" and I was prepping, acting, and directing sort of at the same time. I knew that I didn't want to hold people up on set."
"I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally."
"I love acting. I love performing."
"I've been acting since 2002, around about there."
"I love theatre. It's far more satisfying than film. Sometimes there's a collective sigh from the audience, or it's so quiet you can hear a pin drop. I couldn't believe how easy acting was when there's an audience; after a few previews I almost couldn't do it without one."
"Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle."
"Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me."
"I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy."
"I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school."
"It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it."
"When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars."
