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When I did my first episode of 'Xena,' I told my parents this is the worst acting I've ever done.
Hudson Leick
Parents
First
Worst
Did
Done
Episode
Acting
Ever
Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.
Hugh Grant
Love
Rest
Pretentious
Think
Fact
Part
Most
Read
Because
Blinds
Nonsense
Very
Often
Want
Burn
Which
Script
Interesting
Them
Really
Acting
Actor
I don't do much acting anymore anyway, and not to work for 20th Century Fox is really the least of my worries.
Hugh Grant
Work
Worries
Least
Anymore
Anyway
Century
Much
Really
Acting
Fox
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
Hugh Grant
Nature
Mind
Slow
Incredibly
Just
Acting
Film
Film Acting
Tedious
I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.
Hugh Grant
Made
Films
Entertaining
Some
Having
Fact
Proud
Than
Done
Quite
Choices
Acting
Less
I think the part of my acting career where I've been more successful, I've been incredibly cushioned. People are much too nice to you. You go into politics, and people are absolutely brutal. You've got proper enemies, and they're vicious. It's very invigorating.
Hugh Grant
Politics
You
People
Enemies
Nice
Think
Too
Incredibly
Proper
More
Brutal
Absolutely
Part
Invigorating
Got
Go
Been
Very
Where
Vicious
Cushioned
Much
Successful
Acting
Acting Career
Career
I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curiosities.
Hugh Grant
Enthusiasm
Lost
Slightly
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Some
Most
Pieces
Curiosities
Done
Little
Acting
It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.
Hugh Jackman
Life
Me
Heart
My Life
Nothing
Touched
Had
Dawned
Like
Did
Wanted
Acting
Ever
Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.
Hugh Jackman
Life
Love
Hope
Great
Me
Respect
People
Try
Challenge
My Life
Important
Think
Other
Rubs
Something
More
Make
Greater
Around
Lot
Off
Than
Craft
Any
Just
Acting
Teaching
Career
Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.
Hugh Laurie
Music
About
Masks
Putting
Removing
Them
Acting
Largely
Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.
Hugo Weaving
You
World
Clothes
Think
Kid
Kind
Total
Some
Dressing
Something
Put
Freely
Call
Up
Just
Want
Just Kind
Which
Inhabit
Acting
Fully
Initially
Even
Imaginary
Imaginary World
Imagine
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.
Hunter Schafer
School
Guilt
Sense
Drama
High
Dreamed
High School
Students
Almost
Feel
Industry
Because
Go
Surrounded
Arts
Working
Acting
Acting School
Who
I had never really acted before, so I really didn't know what I was doing. The casting director for 'Euphoria' set me up with an acting coach in New York, and he completely flipped my world around. The way you learn to utilize your brain and your emotions really freaked me out.
Hunter Schafer
Me
You
Director
Emotions
World
Before
Way
Out
Freaked
Casting
Never
Had
He
New
Know
Learn
Around
Doing
Brain
Up
York
New York
Really
Coach
Acted
Acting
Your
Euphoria
Flipped
Utilize
Set
I'm fascinated with acting now. In retrospect, I was only beginning to chip off the tip of the iceberg with how far I can go or what I was exploring inside of me that I hadn't touched in a while as far as emotional headspaces.
Hunter Schafer
Me
Beginning
Inside
Touched
Only
Emotional
Retrospect
How
How Far
Go
Off
Tip
Tip Of The Iceberg
As Far As
While
Iceberg
Chip
Far
Acting
Exploring
Fascinated
Now
To be honest, I am scared of acting, and moreover, I want to be perfect on the musical stage first.
Hyuna
First
Stage
To Be Honest
Musical
Scared
Moreover
Perfect
Am
Want
Acting
Honest
As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.
Ian Gomez
Work
Funny
Mom
Me
Class
Try
Nurture
Pretending
Defense
Trees
Tried
Bored
Had
Putting
Got
Child
Stopped
Acting
Acting Class
Mechanisms
Actually
'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.
Ian Holm
Whatever
Tea
Other
Indeed
Niro
Kind
Takes
Look
De Niro
Opinion
Method
Cup
Brando
Any
Acting
All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
Ian Holm
Me
You
Whatever
Think
Approach
Out
Bound
Performance
Lear
Another
Doer
Got
Am
Very
Role
Get
Did
May
Just
Different
Much
Acting
Compare
Necessary
Playing
What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.
Ian McShane
Work
Great
You
Out
About
Hang
While
Acting
Your
I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
Ian Mckellen
Saying
You
Training
School
Think
Drama
Drama School
Way
Someone
Point
Through
Never
Put
Limited
Understood
Go
Been
Different
Fan
Should
Act
Acting
Theories
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.
Ian Mckellen
Great
You
Macbeth
Out
Easy
Exciting
Most
Likely
Practical
Attracts
Understand
Audiences
Sell
Very
Mount
Short
Just
Want
Theater
Explanation
Production
Acting
Popular
Play
Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
Ian Mckellen
Dog
Big
Changing
Part
Always
Very
Big Part
Human
Human Beings
Acting
Beings
Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.
Ian Somerhalder
Life
Me
Creative
World
My Life
Think
Relevant
Able
Outlet
Part
Openly
Make
Make A Difference
Truly
Huge
Discuss
Huge Part
Difference
Really
Acting
Creative Outlet
Actually
Things
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.
Ian Somerhalder
Time
Great
You
Director
Enough
Enough Time
Spend
Out
Able
Some
Finesse
Directors
Point
Performance
Understands
Lot
Get
Acting
Actor
Set
The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
Ice T
Music
You
Yourself
Will
Someone
Something
Led
Quite
Just
Movies
Acting
Fortunate
Choose
Chosen
In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
Illeana Douglas
School
High
High School
Writer
Got
Goal
SNL
Then
Acting
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