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The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of 'Macbeth'. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.
'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.
I had been interested in trying acting, and, like, I went to school with actors and whatnot, and I was interested in the craft but didn't really push myself to do it.
I went to an arts high school and was surrounded by drama students who dreamed of working in the industry. I almost feel a sense of guilt, because I didn't go to acting school.
In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
When I did my first episode of 'Xena,' I told my parents this is the worst acting I've ever done.
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
I fell into acting because I was really shy, and so at night after work, I took public speaking and improv classes, and I started going to auditions sort of as a dare. That was my version of 'Fear Factor.'
I don't like being watched, and I don't like being told what to do, so acting is a very poor professional choice.
I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So I transferred to the Open University, because I could do it all online. By that point, I had admitted to myself that I had the acting bug.
I always had an acting crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman. He just wowed me all the time. He was just quietly so impressive and so private.
Frankly speaking, I feel anyone who starts acting, be it in theater, TV, or even advertisements, is looking at Bollywood.
My idea of opening a restaurant was important. The whole point is that I couldn't have been totally dependent on acting for my income... even though I want to remain in the field of entertainment forever.
In an acting career, you need to reach a stage where you can say 'Thank you very much, I can't do this role because I have done this before or I don't like it.'
I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.
When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.
In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.
Making the visuals photo-realistic lets us do things we were never able to do before. The voice acting, the facial expressions, are all that much deeper.
My uncles are always busy away acting, so I barely even see them much at all, but I always know that they are so supportive. Anytime I do see them, they always check up on it and make sure everything's okay and let me know that they're there for me.
Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is second, and acting is the most fun.
The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.
Acting on TV is ruled out. I admire those who do it, but I found it quite strenuous.
I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.
The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.
For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want.
I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.
Growing up in Sweden, I decided pretty early on that I wanted to go to acting school.
They're called 'action scenes' because they do the acting for you. You don't have to act in action scenes. The action does it all for you. It's great.
I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'
A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.
From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.
When I came to Mumbai in 2005 for a holiday, I received work offers. So I decided to stay back and pursue a modelling and acting career.
Actors that don't look like they're acting and stories that are told well inspire me.
When I'm not acting, I do like to take a year off at a time, at least if I can, just in order to keep acting exciting - otherwise I get bored very quickly.
Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.
I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human.
One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.
Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.
I thought there might be a career in acting because I had other friends doing it.
If I'm honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason I'm still doing it, and if I'm still doing it in ten years' time, I'm sure I'll find something else.
As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.
When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.
Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.
Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.
One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
As humans, we've all experienced some level of pain. Acting is just a matter of accessing and magnifying these emotions.
I went to school in the Bronx. I learned to constantly try to cover up the fact that I was gay. That facade of being somebody I'm really not just to protect myself definitely helped with acting.
I got to a point where I was completely typecast, and I knew I was paying my dues, and I was happy to do so because I knew that's what had to happen, and I loved acting. But I would never go back.
Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.
The transition from tiny movies to less tiny movies to really big movies has been actually quite seamless in a lot of ways as far as my experience of acting in them.
I sometimes have to turn off the fan part of my brain when I'm acting; otherwise, it would be terrible.
I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.
Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I'd be a very unhealthy person without it.
I'd trained at the University of Washington and had a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting.
Acting is always something I thought I could do, and I thought I would be pretty good at it, but I thought that I missed the opportunity, that it was too late.
In 2012, Hillary Clinton's State Department, acting through its ambassador, Mari Carmen Aponte, threatened to withhold critical development aid unless El Salvador passed a major privatization law.
I've been acting professionally since I was 24, and it's the only job I've ever done.
The only reason why you should do a film is because it creatively carbonates you and gets you going. If you're doing it for any other reason, you've lost sight of why you're acting in the first place.
Ingrid Bergman made an enormous impression on me. I couldn't imagine where that kind of acting talent came from.
Acting in 'Command & Conquer 3' called for me to interact with the player and to look directly into the camera, which is a big no no when filming for TV or film.
Acting job can create a fantasy or stereotype for others. That's why we try not to show our personal lives so much.
When I was still settling into being a CEO, I wasted a lot of time driving initiatives designed to please others, acting as if someone wouldn't let me do what I wanted to do with Redfin.
I was on 'Junior Star Search' when I was 10 years old, in the acting category. The adult version of 'Star Search' didn't have an acting category, but for the kids, they had an acting category. It was the strangest thing. It was full blown 1980s, with big hair, mullets, and the whole deal.
British electoral law forbids different campaign organisations acting in concert unless they have a shared cap on spending.
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