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As much as I'd only like to concentrate on the creative side of acting, the whole business in general is just that - a business - and you have to do your homework if you want to be successful.

— Margot Robbie

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

— Juliette Binoche

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

Acting's more of a business for me now.

— Randy Quaid

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

— Lili Taylor

Acting is the way I make my living.

— Peter Coyote

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

— Hugh Jackman

✗Opposing Perspectives

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

— Amber Tamblyn

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

— Jeff Bridges

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

— Dr. Dre

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

— Paul Muni