#acting

For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child going, 'I'm wondering about my motivation here. How can I do this toy? How can I do this train? I don't feel train.' ↗

— Brian Cox

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The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

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When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#does #drama #ever #i #me

The foundation for film acting is stage acting. ↗

— James Lipton

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I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world. ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

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That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

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An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

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It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

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