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I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.


Abbey Lee Kershaw

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ALEX KARPOVSKY I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
RALPH FIENNES There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren'...
TARYN MANNING For me, I need to be able to show up on set and fart around and goof around. If I can have that, whe...
BETSY BRANDT I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful ...
ELIZABETH PENA The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
DAKOTA GOYO I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!
ELAINE STRITCH You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
LAURA INNES For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school wi...
JULIA GARNER I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I ...
VANITY If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm h...
ICE T I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
HARRISON FORD I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did e...
MADISEN BEATY For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm ...
USAIN BOLT Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more...
DANA HILL Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, ...
MORGAN FREEMAN I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I gue...
QUEEN LATIFAH I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
EDDIE MURPHY I'm acting for the pleasure of it.
DAVID MORSE I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
GABRIEL BASSO When I'm acting, I like to think of myself as a non-actor, and a non-drummer when I'm drummi...
TREVOR ST. JOHN I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private ...
HANNAH WARE I'm very serious about acting.
VICTOR GARBER I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different fe...
CHAD EVERETT I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting o...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I learn the techniques and then take what I need. I have the Essie Davis technique of acting. I'...
ESSIE DAVIS Acting feels different. I'm not sure exactly what that is, but it used to mean a lot more. Maybe...
MEL GIBSON I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I'...
BETTY FIELD Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breakin...
SHAILENE WOODLEY I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.
SAOIRSE RONAN I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I neve...
JESSICA WHITE If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the grou...
KIM CATTRALL My background is in acting, so I enjoy being able to show what I'm looking for. With acting, it&...
KIM JI-WOON I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimate...
DWIGHT HENRY I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It'...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get...
BERENICE MARLOHE I'm really getting into acting and TV. 'Sports Illustrated' is a big, iconic brand I'...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles...
KATHY IRELAND I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting, I take to the pen, and I write something I ...
LAKE BELL I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allow...
GARY COLEMAN I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
DANIEL BREAKER I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody&...
ELLEN POMPEO For someone in an alternative job, an alternative lifestyle, it's very hard to explain what I do...
CONNOR FRANTA I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I alwa...
ACTION BRONSON I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.
KEELEY HAWES I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, 'That's wh...
SCOTT ADKINS There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the div...
SAM SHEPARD I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do...
JOHN OLIVER I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.
STEVE MCQUEEN I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.
NADINE VELAZQUEZ I'm trying to do something real different; I'm trying to bring the street to real pop. I'...
TIMBALAND I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'...
OLIVIA CULPO I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
EDDIE ALBERT I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
KURT COBAIN Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out ...
TANA FRENCH For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.
BEN SAVAGE I've had a lazy career. Sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the...
JAMES SPADER I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure ...
EMMA WATSON I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are ...
SHARON GLESS I'm conservative, and people know where I stand. They can trust me to do what I say I'm goin...
SHARRON ANGLE Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.
MICHELLE DOCKERY When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me...
ZACH GALIFIANAKIS I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
ADAM DRIVER I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'...
BOBBY SEALE Once I've ascertained that I'm safe and I'm with a director who is taking care of me, th...
JULIANNE MOORE I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
NATASHA LITTLE I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
MOS DEF I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.
FOXY BROWN Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.
BLYTHE DANNER I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk r...
NICOLAS CAGE Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it's nice ...
SARAH PAULSON The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think ...
PADDY CONSIDINE In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects an...
ELIZA COUPE If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really ...
MARIA MENOUNOS I've been acting for 15 years now, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about 't...
TOM ELLIS I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some ...
LACEY CHABERT I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around th...
JIM CARREY Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say ...
TEA LEONI I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm....
CARICE VAN HOUTEN I'm a strong supporter of states' rights to do what they need.
BRIAN SANDOVAL I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do!
JOHN PETERS I've probably had my best time acting - or not acting, or trying to not act - on things like ...
AIDAN GILLEN They're like, 'Oh, you did a...' and I'm like, 'I did a what?' No, I flipped...
SIMONE BILES I don't have tremendous physical vitality since I had a neck operation, and I'm more aware t...
RICHARD BURTON I don't want to do something that's watered down. I don't want to take what I'm know...
BILLY EICHNER I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.
DENNIS RODMAN I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to...
RIDLEY SCOTT I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.
KAITLYN DEVER I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of ...
DAVID LABRAVA I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting ...
MICHELLE PFEIFFER I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike L...
MARK DUPLASS I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I...
GABOUREY SIDIBE I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to d...
GEOFFREY BEENE I go to Stanford, and I'm an economics major, not thinking I'm going to do anything with act...
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ABBEY BRADWAY I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
LYNN ABBEY I'm always trolling for trivia.
LYNN ABBEY I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing require...
LYNN ABBEY I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
LYNN ABBEY I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a para...
LYNN ABBEY I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known a...
LYNN ABBEY For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
LYNN ABBEY Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They...
LYNN ABBEY During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were a...
LYNN ABBEY A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the spec...
LYNN ABBEY The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough a...
EDWARD ABBEY When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem
EDWARD ABBEY The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of pe...
EDWARD ABBEY A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repress...
EDWARD ABBEY Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
EDWARD ABBEY There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
EDWARD ABBEY Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.
EDWARD ABBEY Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
EDWARD ABBEY But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
EDWARD ABBEY