#acting

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero. ↗

— Richard Dreyfuss

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When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy. ↗

— Leslie Easterbrook

#characters #comedy #desire #doing #ended

Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me. ↗

— Soleil Moon Frye

#back #children #eventually #go #i

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia. ↗

— Vittorio Gassman

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I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer. ↗

— Melissa George

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Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

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My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer. ↗

— Robert Guillaume

#acting #acting ability #actor #back #got

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting. ↗

— Woody Harrelson

#because #disillusioned #i #i love #love

To me acting and singing are worlds apart. ↗

— Emmylou Harris

#apart #me #singing #worlds

When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them. ↗

— Jared Harris

#because #cry #emotions #generally #hold