"I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater."
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"TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing."
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"I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently."
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"I really prefer acting in the theater the most. In some ways TV is closer to that because there's more of a regularity to the schedule. You have to finish an episode by a certain day. Movies can just go on interminably."
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"I love acting. I really do. I think that's maybe the one thing that is known about me."
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"I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke. An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes."
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"I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way."
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"I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work."
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"I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express."
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"People who are artists, they want their music, their art, their acting craft to get out. And once it's appreciated, that seems to be, unfortunately, enough. But you got to take care of your business, surround yourself with good counsel, and that didn't happen."
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"If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not."
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"Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything."
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"Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not."
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"I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it."
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"I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work."
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"I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices."
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"I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies."
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"If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent."
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"Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed."
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"Always had a passion for acting since I could remember, but I started when I was ten going for short film and commercial auditions in Los Angeles with my mom's help!"
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