#acting

When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking. ↗

— Stephen Chow

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One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

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I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take. ↗

— Helena Christensen

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Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting. ↗

— Emilia Clarke

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But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with. ↗

— John Cleese

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So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

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When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy. ↗

— John Cleese

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When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit. ↗

— Ed Helms

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I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

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I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15. ↗

— Toni Collette

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