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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
EDIE MCCLURG Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make ...
TRAVIS FIMMEL I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my d...
RUTH WILSON![]()
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retri...
THEODORE STURGEON Music isn't only a profession.
JOSE CARRERAS Probably the most common question I get is, 'Who's your dream guest?' That's kind of...
BILLY EICHNER![]()
My mother always said I should have a back-up profession if the acting doesn't work out.
GINA BELLMAN![]()
When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the ...
JOANNA LUMLEY![]()
It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
EDDIE REDMAYNE I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean,...
ZELJKO IVANEK![]()
My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs ...
AJAY NAIDU![]()
Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumsta...
JOHN HURT![]()
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some...
WARREN BEATTY My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to...
FRANK BLACK![]()
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn...
ETHEL WATERS![]()
I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.
JIMMY CARTER It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? ...
FELICITY JONES My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why pe...
KAREENA KAPOOR KHAN![]()
I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Ho...
MARA WILSON Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody...
DOUGRAY SCOTT![]()
There really isn't a dream role, but there's a dream situation where I could work with a dir...
LOGAN LERMAN If I wasn't acting, I'd try and be a footballer. I wouldn't be a musician because I can&...
JAMIE BLACKLEY![]()
I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't grea...
IDINA MENZEL The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my ...
SCOTT STAPP I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimate...
DWIGHT HENRY Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is rea...
NOLAN GOULD I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.
ESTELLA WARREN![]()
When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it&...
GLORIA STUART The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was g...
ADEPERO ODUYE Most of the time, you don't win anything on reality shows. You're booted off, or maybe you w...
MICHAEL IAN BLACK Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.
CYRIL CUSACK The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their ...
NOLAN NORTH Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me j...
VICTORIA PRATT I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.
CHRIS PAUL I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.
WENDY DAVIS![]()
My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't a...
STELLA YOUNG![]()
I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's question...
SIMONE SIGNORET![]()
The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the f...
PATTI SMITH![]()
My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't...
LOUIS TOMLINSON![]()
Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches.
CLIVE OWEN I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea...
CAITY LOTZ![]()
For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it real...
MARIANNE FAITHFULL Isn't it ironic that a nightmare can masquerade as a dream?
KEN POIROT![]()
I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my ag...
MACAULAY CULKIN I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my p...
EMILY BROWNING![]()
Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look an...
OLGA KURYLENKO My dream isn't running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.
BONNIE HAMMER![]()
People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I ...
ROSA PARKS![]()
I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was...
KATHLEEN EDWARDS![]()
My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
VALERIE BERTINELLI My parents are a big help, and they're always making sure I have a normal life and my life isn&#...
CAYDEN BOYD![]()
I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifesty...
LISA LING Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any di...
LARRY HAGMAN![]()
I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been...
RICHARD DREYFUSS Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, p...
JONATHAN GROFF At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camer...
PARMINDER NAGRA Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to p...
PARMINDER NAGRA I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleas...
PARMINDER NAGRA I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who thi...
PARMINDER NAGRA I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.
PARMINDER NAGRA In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball...
PARMINDER NAGRA In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, ...
PARMINDER NAGRA My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian ...
PARMINDER NAGRA No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to...
PARMINDER NAGRA That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and...
PARMINDER NAGRA There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
PARMINDER NAGRA But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television...
PARMINDER NAGRA But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because...
PARMINDER NAGRA But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches B...
PARMINDER NAGRA Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and the...
PARMINDER NAGRA I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
PARMINDER NAGRA It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before.
PARMINDER NAGRA In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there'...
PARMINDER NAGRA If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.
PARMINDER NAGRA Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made o...
PARMINDER NAGRA And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball game...
PARMINDER NAGRA Somebody once said to me 'You're turning into a mini-George with your little pranks'.
PARMINDER NAGRA![]()
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
KATHARINE HEPBURN When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much m...
JANIS IAN![]()
I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because ...
CAROL BURNETT![]()
There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren'...
TARYN MANNING Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility...
STEVEN YEUN![]()
With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my wa...
TAVI GEVINSON![]()
I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
BILL WATTERSON![]()
I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was ident...
DAVID CASSIDY My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character ev...
RHEA PERLMAN![]()
Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.
LIAM NEESON![]()
Let's use some codes every word which isn't there or sound some kind non-sense, let's put it a code ...
DEYTH BANGER![]()
Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you ju...
RYAN GOSLING![]()
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE![]()
Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don&#...
KRISTEN WIIG Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.
ANDREW LAWRENCE Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
RADHA MITCHELL I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an a...
JACK ANTONOFF Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.
AL ALVAREZ![]()
I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls tha...
ANGELINA JOLIE![]()
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
DAVE EGGERS![]()
Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and si...
ELIZABETH BIBESCO
EDIE MCCLURG Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make ...
TRAVIS FIMMEL I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my d...
RUTH WILSON
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retri... THEODORE STURGEON Music isn't only a profession.
JOSE CARRERAS Probably the most common question I get is, 'Who's your dream guest?' That's kind of...
BILLY EICHNER
My mother always said I should have a back-up profession if the acting doesn't work out. GINA BELLMAN
When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the ... JOANNA LUMLEY
It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have. EDDIE REDMAYNE I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean,...
ZELJKO IVANEK
My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs ... AJAY NAIDU
Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumsta... JOHN HURT
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some... WARREN BEATTY My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to...
FRANK BLACK
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn... ETHEL WATERS
I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected. JIMMY CARTER It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? ...
FELICITY JONES My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why pe...
KAREENA KAPOOR KHAN
I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Ho... MARA WILSON Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody...
DOUGRAY SCOTT
There really isn't a dream role, but there's a dream situation where I could work with a dir... LOGAN LERMAN If I wasn't acting, I'd try and be a footballer. I wouldn't be a musician because I can&...
JAMIE BLACKLEY
I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't grea... IDINA MENZEL The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my ...
SCOTT STAPP I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimate...
DWIGHT HENRY Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is rea...
NOLAN GOULD I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.
ESTELLA WARREN
When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it&... GLORIA STUART The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was g...
ADEPERO ODUYE Most of the time, you don't win anything on reality shows. You're booted off, or maybe you w...
MICHAEL IAN BLACK Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.
CYRIL CUSACK The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their ...
NOLAN NORTH Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me j...
VICTORIA PRATT I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.
CHRIS PAUL I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.
WENDY DAVIS
My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't a... STELLA YOUNG
I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's question... SIMONE SIGNORET
The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the f... PATTI SMITH
My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't... LOUIS TOMLINSON
Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches. CLIVE OWEN I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea...
CAITY LOTZ
For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it real... MARIANNE FAITHFULL Isn't it ironic that a nightmare can masquerade as a dream?
KEN POIROT
I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my ag... MACAULAY CULKIN I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my p...
EMILY BROWNING
Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look an... OLGA KURYLENKO My dream isn't running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.
BONNIE HAMMER
People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I ... ROSA PARKS
I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was... KATHLEEN EDWARDS
My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special. VALERIE BERTINELLI My parents are a big help, and they're always making sure I have a normal life and my life isn&#...
CAYDEN BOYD
I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifesty... LISA LING Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any di...
LARRY HAGMAN
I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been... RICHARD DREYFUSS Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, p...
JONATHAN GROFF At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camer...
PARMINDER NAGRA Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to p...
PARMINDER NAGRA I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleas...
PARMINDER NAGRA I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who thi...
PARMINDER NAGRA I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.
PARMINDER NAGRA In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball...
PARMINDER NAGRA In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, ...
PARMINDER NAGRA My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian ...
PARMINDER NAGRA No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to...
PARMINDER NAGRA That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and...
PARMINDER NAGRA There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
PARMINDER NAGRA But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television...
PARMINDER NAGRA But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because...
PARMINDER NAGRA But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches B...
PARMINDER NAGRA Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and the...
PARMINDER NAGRA I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
PARMINDER NAGRA It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before.
PARMINDER NAGRA In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there'...
PARMINDER NAGRA If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.
PARMINDER NAGRA Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made o...
PARMINDER NAGRA And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball game...
PARMINDER NAGRA Somebody once said to me 'You're turning into a mini-George with your little pranks'.
PARMINDER NAGRA
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession. KATHARINE HEPBURN When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much m...
JANIS IAN
I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because ... CAROL BURNETT
There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren'... TARYN MANNING Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility...
STEVEN YEUN
With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my wa... TAVI GEVINSON
I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor? BILL WATTERSON
I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was ident... DAVID CASSIDY My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character ev...
RHEA PERLMAN
Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life. LIAM NEESON
Let's use some codes every word which isn't there or sound some kind non-sense, let's put it a code ... DEYTH BANGER
Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you ju... RYAN GOSLING
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. PAUL CEZANNE
Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don&#... KRISTEN WIIG Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.
ANDREW LAWRENCE Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
RADHA MITCHELL I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an a...
JACK ANTONOFF Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.
AL ALVAREZ
I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls tha... ANGELINA JOLIE
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. DAVE EGGERS
Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and si... ELIZABETH BIBESCO
