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• I think the only thing I’ve got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

  Rufus Sewell

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• As soon as you know what you’re doing, you’re doing it wrong. That’s what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.

  Liev Schreiber

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• Acting is a way of living out one’s insanity.

  Isabelle Huppert

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• It’s sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you’re dealing with.

  Ivan Reitman

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• Acting should be an end in itself.

  Chris Sarandon

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• I’m kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

  Santi White

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• My department is to get actors to do stuff.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

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• One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people’s lives without having to pay the price. I’ve never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.

  Robert De Niro

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  Tags in Myself, Human, Whether, Acting

• That’s what acting is. You’re pretending to be someone else.

  Saoirse Ronan

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• I’ve always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

  Saoirse Ronan

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  A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

  Carlos Castaneda

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• I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

  David Ginola

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• Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

  Bryn Terfel

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• I started acting professionally at age 19.

  Bruce Boxleitner

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• I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five – this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16… but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

  Danny Masterson

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• If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

  Danny Masterson

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• The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I’m playing a performance capture role and you’re playing a live action role and we’re having a scene together, there’s no difference in our acting processes.

  Andy Serkis

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• My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don’t get the performance on the day, you can’t enhance the performance.

  Andy Serkis

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• My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.

  Andy Serkis

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• I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn’t choose acting. It chose me.

  Ingrid Bergman

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