"Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it."
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"Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying."
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"I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it."
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"Acting, films, scripts, is literally the only thing I’m 100 percent confident in. I know what I’m doing. I just understand it, and I love it. When I’m on set, that’s when I feel the most at home and in control."
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"I take from people all the time. I didn't ever go to acting classes or anything. You can just watch people."
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"Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I never considered failure."
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"I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have] become a nurse."
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"I was acting my way through the whole thing."
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"Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role."
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"I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean."
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"A lot of times people will say, 'Well, gosh, you're really good; you should try acting!' And I say, 'Come on! I'm thesping my little guts out over here.'"
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"I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it."
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"I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it."
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"No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious."
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"An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor."
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"Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?"
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"Acting is the loneliest profession I know."
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"There's definitely something about the acting that's the most fun."
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"The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer."
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"I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience."
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