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With acting, you do want to get every job, and you're trying to get every audition, but then you reach a certain stage where you start to kind of gravitate toward the stories and the people that have a similar heartbeat.

— Jason Clarke

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✓Similar Perspectives

Acting takes a lot of practice, but so does auditioning.

— Vincent Rodriguez III

Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.

— Emily Kinney

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

— Jeff Bridges

When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition and you get what you can. Choice isn't something that you have much of.

— Eddie Redmayne

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

— Ian Mckellen

As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

— Katee Sackhoff

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

— Laurence Fox

I haven't been in a position to have the luxury to pick roles for most of my career, so I'm not practiced in that. Usually, when you want to be an actor, you take whatever comes along. If there's an audition, you go for it. If you get the job, you do it - just to get experience, to act, to meet people.

— Ken Leung

As an actor, as you grow into where you fit in the industry, you're just trying to find the opportunities, hoping they grow and you get to do more.

— Mahershala Ali

✗Opposing Perspectives

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.

— Tom Sizemore