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I grew up learning ballet, and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a ballet dancer when I was younger, but at a certain age, I really was more interested in acting.
Elizabeth Debicki
Learning
Age
Thought
Older
Took
Dancer
More
Contemporary
Got
Ballet
Ballet Dancer
Up
Going
Grew
Interested
Younger
Then
Really
Certain
Certain Age
Acting
I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.
Elizabeth McGovern
Stage
On-Screen
More
Than
Screen
Much
Acting
Found
Challenging
Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life is definitely worth living, whether you're working or not. For an actor, the character is the thing... it doesn't matter what medium you're in. as long as you have something to do.
Elizabeth Mitchell
Life
Character
Me
You
Worth
Matter
Long
Living
Think
Medium
Otherwise
Definitely
Worth Living
Something
Thrill
Exciting
Whether
Working
Acting
Actor
Thing
And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.
Elizabeth Olsen
Classes
Taking
Since
Been
Acting
Acting Classes
I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.
Elizabeth Olsen
Me
Important
Gone
Tools
Find
Totally
Provided
Different
Them
Really
Acting
Four
I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.
Elizabeth Pena
Work
Love
Time
Wonderful
Having
Feel
Like
Wonderful Time
Getting
Just
Happen
Acting
Vacation
Nightmare
I'm very fortunate that I really like acting, but it's not all I want to do. I love to sing. I love blues. I love jazz.
Ella Purnell
Love
Jazz
Like
Sing
Very
Blues
Want
Really
Acting
Fortunate
What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.
Ella Purnell
Myself
About
Learn
Acting
Use
I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.
Ellar Coltrane
Creative
Creative Process
Lost
Like
Being
Process
Acting
I was very angsty from a very young age. The way people start acting when they're 15, I started being at 8.
Ellar Coltrane
Age
People
Young
Way
Very
Young Age
Being
Acting
Start
Started
I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.
Elle Fanning
You
Believe
Like
Make
Sort
Make-Believe
Anything
Create
Acting
Why
Imagine
I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.
Elle Fanning
Singing
Else
Dancing
Something
Something Else
Had
Like
Always
Maybe
Sketching
Then
Acting
Choose
Designer
Designs
Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.
Elle Macpherson
Nothing
Other
Modeling
Acting
Each
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Ellen Barkin
Matter
Giving
Secrets
Acting
Away
Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.
Ellen Barkin
You
Dance
Shoes
Own
Way
Would
Some
About
My Own
Put
Feel
Come
Felt
Hand
Just
Taught
Lake
Swan
Toe
Acting
Your
Violin
I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.
Ellen Barkin
School
Before
High
High School
Studied
Studio
Performing
Performing Arts
Audition
Years
Lee
Arts
Acting
Teachers
Actor
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.
Ellen Burstyn
Art
Good
First
Later
Say
Out
Would
Admire
Most
Well
Began
Very
Taste
Acting
Actress
Started
Appreciate
Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.
Ellen Pompeo
Girl
Young
Cathartic
Amazingly
Young Girls
Acting
Thing
I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
Ellen Pompeo
Life
Teacher
Big
Living
Think
Saving
Way
Find
Some
Noble
Particularly
Make
Deal
Big Deal
Anybody
UNICEF
Working
Acting
Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.
Ellen Terry
Good
Vary
Pace
Good Acting
Acting
Foundations
I am not intimidated by puerile boys acting like pre-teens.
Ellen Ullman
Intimidated
Like
Boy
Am
Acting
I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.
Ellen Wong
Creative
Inspired
Feel
Role
Just
Being
Want
Acting
Keep
I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.
Elliot Cowan
Life
Theatre
World
Own
Think
Enough
Analysis
Our
My Own
Feel
Commentary
Contribute
Get
Just
Want
Certain
Acting
Play
The only thing that made its way to actually happen for me was acting. I love it, and I love being on set. I love being in rehearsal for things and telling stories. It's what I feel I am supposed to be doing.
Elliot Knight
Love
Me
Made
Way
Telling
Only
Feel
Supposed
Am
Doing
Being
The Only Thing
Happen
Stories
Acting
Rehearsal
Actually
Thing
Things
Set
The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.
Elliott Abrams
Change
Oppose
Syria
Variety
Support
Between
Most
Arms
Terrorist
Importantly
Issues
Lebanese
Affairs
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Goal
Iran
Authority
Gets
Behaviour
Where
Land
Interference
Acting
Internal
Internal Affairs
Bridge
Groups
Palestinian
I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'
Elliott Gould
Best
You
Light
Shoes
Changed
Changing
Took
Marx
He
Light Bulb
Over
Said
Got
Bed
Bulb
His
Off
Done
Acting
Groucho
Ever
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