My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.
'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.
Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
People who think too much before they act don't act too much.
Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.
Now I just act like I don't remember; Mary acts like she don't care.
I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.
That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37.
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.
If you really love acting, you'll want to act. That's what I did. You don't look for any payday because the likelihood of a payday is slim to none.
Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.
I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.
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