#acting

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

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We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

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If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people. ↗

— William Petersen

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That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere. ↗

— Stephen Rea

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I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along. ↗

— Stephen Rea

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A lot of what acting is paying attention. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

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I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

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And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on. ↗

— Paul Reiser

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We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#boy #coming #contracting #girl #had

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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