"I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions."
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"By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life."
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"In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all."
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"I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby."
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"What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."
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"It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek."
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"I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball"
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"I'm just learning every day and I hope to continue that until the day I die. I'm just trying to learn and experience as much as I possibly can. I look at acting, at how I look at being involved in a job and living my life and prioritising."
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"Creativity is the ability to see and to respond."
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"The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing."
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"Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it."
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"A lot of acting is private time."
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"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation."
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"Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one."
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"With acting, I think half of it is just acting confident. We stand on these red carpets and pose in these dresses, but we're all only so confident. It doesn't mean we think we're great looking or anything. It's all a façade."
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"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
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"When I get to tell a story through music videos or TV, it's all about finding the story that I want to tell, so I'm definitely open to acting roles, it just depends on the story."
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"Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society."
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"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear."
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"The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night."
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