- Nov 07, 2020
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- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started pursuing acting professionally out of college, it was very much in my head that there would be comparisons with potentially both of my parents, and I found that pretty intimidating.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stepped away from stunts and into acting right around when stunt people started getting put into motion-capture stuff.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's not easy, acting.
- Nov 07, 2020
Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.
- Stupid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had acting teachers say, 'If you want to do anything else but act, that means you're not an actor,' which I think is stupid!
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't miss acting at all.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting was something fun that my dad did, but baseball is what he really wanted to do.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting was what everybody thought I should do, and at 15, when you love something so much, it's like - 'That's not what I do. That's what they do.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become firm in any way that I needed, and he just let me try things and to explore what I can do with my acting. So that was very helpful.
- Exertion
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- Nov 07, 2020
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
- Nov 07, 2020
Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.
- Hobby
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the DOJ and the SEC must be vigilant in investigating and prosecuting white-collar misconduct, we must also ensure that we are acting fairly and prudently.
- Cheating
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- Nov 07, 2020
The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our leaders have the solemn obligation to know the proper steps to take before acting upon them, and building a wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf Coast of Texas is a third-century solution to a 21st-century problem.
- Nov 07, 2020
In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.
- Minority
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- Nov 07, 2020
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried bull-riding... I wasn't good at all: I don't think I ever got eight seconds anywhere. But then, after that, I discovered acting through community theater.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
- Business Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
I concentrate on acting while my dad handles the business side of my career.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting takes a lot of practice, but so does auditioning.
- Depicted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up accepting that my nationality was not depicted on TV or film. To be honest, it was something I didn't acknowledge as a kid. But once I realized my love for acting and the possibility of pursuing a career in it, I quickly noticed the absence of Asians in general and thought, 'Well, I'm gonna try to change that.'
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Upon graduating from my acting program at The Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA, I went to my first tap audition. It was for the 1st national equity tour of '42nd Street.'
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was out with my friends when a casting agent came up and asked me if I was interested in acting.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, my dancing skills never came to the fore, as I got involved in acting on television, where an actor doesn't get too many opportunities to dance.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is just another facet and it will not affect my output as a music director.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father came to Hyderabad to become an actor, took an acting course, and realised he was camera conscious.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I'll always want to come back to theatre, and I also thought if I can crack classical acting, everything else will probably seem easier.
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very serious about acting.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be performer; like, I used to dance at weddings. I felt acting was my calling, and that is something I wanted to do.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am always excited to be an actor. If I wasn't, I would be acting, and the audience wouldn't watch me.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Masoom' was like a picnic for all of us. We kids just wanted to have fun acting in the film. We never realised when the film was completed. When we did, we realised the party was over.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our local news paper. Then, I got a manager and started going out on more auditions.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to go back into acting again.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a 2-year-old baby on something, but it's not like I had lines. But I actually had my first lines when I was 4. And then I finished school, and I went to USC for their BFA program in acting.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my biggest complaints about acting in television were that I was always wearing a tight dress or pencil skirt, and I was always wearing heels.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make some money and pay the bills.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived what we call 'stealth' for a number of years. Even when I started acting in the industry, I didn't disclose. I didn't come out. My first job on 'Law & Order' was not a trans role.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not acting, but I am acting.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing violin when I was six, so I thought I could be a professional. It wasn't until I was 15 when I got into acting classes and realized this was what I wanted to do.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole acting thing is a buffet. One, in terms of role choice and movie choice, I like to do lots of different things, and I think that's the whole fun of it. But I also see it as a buffet in terms of the character.
- Modeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am going to branch out to acting and do more modeling.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did some acting in high school and then a little more in college, and it just was the thing that I felt that I wanted to do more than anything else. And then I was fortunate enough to audition for and get into Yale Drama School right after college, and I spent three years there.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is a big passion of mine, and to be able to do it on the side of acting would be amazing.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Weston' is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn't willing to go out in the acting world as 'Tom Jones,' 'cause I'm Welsh as well, so the connotation is just ridiculous.
- Pro
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- Nov 07, 2020