Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.
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It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.
Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.
I know it sounds silly, but in auditions for film or TV, the words aren't as important - you need to get into the character and have the gist of the scene. But in theater, if you don't do it word for word, then you throw off your scene partner.
Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.
The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.
Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.
Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.
You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.
I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.
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