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Acting

«My mother wanted me to be a lawyer and I wanted to be an Actor. So I went to school, majored in theatre, and said 'Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an actor.' A couple of weeks after I graduated college I called my mother up and said 'Can I borrow $200?' and she said 'Why don't you act like you've got $200.'»
Author: Arsenio Hall | About: Acting, Careers, Parents
«To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily. This is a guy in search of truth. Incidentally, that truth one day could save your life or the life of someone you love. That's a heroic thing.»
Author: Hugh Laurie (Actor, Writer) | About: Acting, Actor, TV series
«The beauty about being a natural actor is just being yourself without getting caught up with how you think a role should be performed. The horror many novices face is not knowing that the natural counts much more than the pretention of being somebody else. The more natural you are then the more convincing the interpreted role will be. The horror many professionals face is that pretending to be natural eventually catches up with them.»
Author: Martin Dansky (Actor, Artist, Writer) | About: Acting
«My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.»
«If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.»
Author: Uta Hagen (Actress, Teacher, Writer) | About: Acting, Theatre
«Someone who's like Angelina Jolie because she isn't scared of not being pretty. She's my favourtie actress. I'd love a role like the one she played in 'Girl, Interrupted'. I've never met her.. I'd be so nervous! And star-struck!»
Author: Christina Aguilera (Singer) | About: Acting
«Saturday Night Live was fun, really really fun. The changing lady was so quick, she almost tore my arm off after the opening monolouge.»
Author: Christina Aguilera (Singer) | About: Acting
«I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.»
«So I am interested in acting, but offers that have come in are ‘small town girl wants to be a singer, has dreams and aspirations, makes it as a star.’ JLo could pull that off, give it to her.»
Author: Christina Aguilera (Singer) | About: Acting
«My sister wanted to be an actress. She never made it, but she does live in a trailer... so she got halfway. She's an actress, she's just never called to the set.»
Author: Mitch Hedberg (Comedian) | About: Acting, Actor, Comedy, Funny | Keywords: actress, sister, trailer

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