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Acting Quotes
Acting is doing, not just saying lines.
These quotes frame acting as something physical and behavioral rather than purely verbal - even listening counts as acting when something real is happening underneath it. One entry traces a path into the craft through local community theater. Related reading in Doing Quotes.
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I moved to New York in '92 and got my graduate degree in acting from NYU - they have a great acting program. I graduated in '95.
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There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.
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I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything.
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I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.
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I've always been passionate about acting. I haven't been passionate about being famous.
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It's like, if you sign a guy you know is a punk and a jerk, you can't complain like, 'Hey, the punk jerk is acting like a punk jerk!'
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I don't know if I ever realized, initially, that I didn't tic when I was so focused on my acting. I think it was after I had already done it a few years, when I went, 'Hey, interesting that this happens.'
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I think that the reason I became an actor, probably, underneath it, was that I spent my life acting normal.
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When I'm acting and I have to remember my lines and put my mind in concert with my body, I don't tic.
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I think acting is therapeutic for me.
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I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always been a hobby of mine - I've been making beats and writing songs for as long or longer than I've been acting.
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Honestly, I don't aspire to be a huge movie star. I really just fell in love with acting... Everything I do on-screen is very subtle.
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I actually had a job while I was acting and was a nursing student, which I had to drop due to my 9-5 job at the time. I managed an instrument room at a hospital in the Bronx.
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