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• Acting like the person I’m supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

  Harvey Martin

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• I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

  Demetri Martin

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• Acting is contained – you act for three months, then leave it – but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

  Sophie Marceau

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• My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.

  Jennifer Garner

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• I don’t like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It’s just not good when it seems like you’re making too much of an effort.

  Clive Owen

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• For me really good acting is about subtext.

  Clive Owen

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• Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

  Tommy Flanagan

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• Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I’ve never considered failure.

  Jennifer Lawrence

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• Acting’s not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

  Meg Tilly

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• I never write with an actor in mind – never.

  Andrea Arnold

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• Acting is something I love.

  Rodney Sturt Taylor

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• Acting doesn’t suffice.

  Rodney Sturt Taylor

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• You don’t see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

  Amitabh Bachchan

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• When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings – singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

  Michelle Dockery

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  Tags in Loved, Acting, Ballet, Modern

• I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

  Ryan Reynolds

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• Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time – and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.

  Ryan Reynolds

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• I’m not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon.

  Christopher Knight

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• On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there’s an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not – that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.

  Eddie Redmayne

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• Listen, acting is not surgery, it’s entertainment. You’re doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we’re vulnerable is that we’re always trying to recreate human behaviour.

  Eddie Redmayne

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• Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, ‘I love this, but I wouldn’t put my daughter on the stage.’

  Eddie Redmayne

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