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• I really love school, but I’d love to continue acting jobs if I can.

  Georgie Henley

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• I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career… I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.

  Tippi Hedren

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• I really need to work. People think that I’m no longer interested in acting and only interested in working with the animals. Obviously I have given that impression, but it is not how I feel. I think I’m a good actor. I think I look OK. I don’t understand why I’m not working all the time.

  Tippi Hedren

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• I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

  Josh Hartnett

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• I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

  Neil Patrick Harris

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• I think acting can be very frustrating, and there’s no experience that doesn’t make you a better actor.

  Rebecca Hall

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• I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, ‘Okay, I’ll try it.’

  Lucy Hale

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• I think what makes a good actor’s director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

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• It’s well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

  Jimmy Stewart

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• Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.

  James Spader

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• Acting for me, is a passion, but it’s also a job, and I’ve always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There’s no shame in taking a film because you need some money.

  James Spader

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• Acting isn’t a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

  Edie McClurg

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• If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

  Frank Cady

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• There’s a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It’s unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.

  Jeremy Sisto

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• Any day acting is an amazing day.

  Kiernan Shipka

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• The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

  Antony Sher

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• No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

  Edmund Burke

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• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, ‘I’m writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.’ So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  Wallace Shawn

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• After being in one movie, it didn’t seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I’d been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn’t think the acting was going to go on and on.

  Wallace Shawn

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• I know that I am one and I’ve made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I’m not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

  Wallace Shawn

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