None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting.
quote by Anna Paquin
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Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.
quote by Christopher Lambert
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Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.
quote by Leonardo DiCaprio
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I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.
quote by Tara Strong
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The Whip!
Life is unpredictable,
boring, though adventurous,
tedious, though amorphous,
lamenting, though delightful,
clueless, though targeted,
tormenting, though reassuring,
Life is unpredictable and unfair,
Gods of Heaven on earth,
Gods of the Universe, yet to be found out,
Please give me the script,
I like to act,
then I know the plot,
I know the next scene,
then I change my perfect costume,
I know the characters,
then I choose the best,
I do not have to live,
I wish to act,
I can act like laughing and crying,
I can act like angry and happy,
I can act as villains and heroes,
I can act as a comedian and a helper,
but,
Gods of the Universe, yet to be found out,
You would still sit on the chair,
that is designated to direct us,
You will make us to live like acting.
You will make us to suffer like acting.
you will make us to be happy like acting.
You are the great Director.
poem by Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi
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Boring Lonely Day
What to do
On a boring lonely day?
How to have something to do
To keep the blues away?
I have got my papers sorted
And I am faced with a lonely boring day.
I cleaned my home yesterday.
From having a good and fun day,
I am thwarted.
The songs only make me sadder
I am having a boring lonely day.
All my games bore me now
Even when I win, it is a lonely boring day.
Having nothing to do
Makes for a boring lonely day.
And no one to do nothing with
That's the cause of the lonely boring day.
Now that I know the cause
Of my lonely boring days,
I can do something without pause
To cure my boring lonely days.
poem by Lonely People Champion
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I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.
quote by Steve Forbert
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
quote by Dame Edith Evans
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Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.
quote by Dan DeCarlo
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It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
quote by Walter Hill
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I have friends, African American actors, who've had more of a struggle; hopefully they're starting to see some air and light now. But in my directing career, in my acting career, in my producing career, I haven't been bound by a lot of limitations. When I first started doing these kinds of unique characters, these diverse characters, there was hardly anybody doing them. So I had this open road.
quote by Forest Whitaker
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My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played.
quote by Alanna Ubach
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There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.
quote by James Caan
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There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.
quote by Tim Robbins
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I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.
quote by Denzel Washington
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.
quote by Henry David Thoreau
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Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.
quote by Klaus Schulze
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And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
quote by Edward James Olmos
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Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
quote by Pierce Brosnan
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
quote by Bebe Neuwirth
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