It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
A. E. Waite
It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
Aaliyah
Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
For me, acting is not a job. It is something I love. I don't do these things for awards or rewards. I do them because I love challenges.
Aamir Khan
There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
Aaron Carter
I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
Aaron Douglas
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
Aaron Paul
I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.
I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.
Aaron Rodgers
My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.
Aaron Stanford
Viola Davis, she does have a lot of TV acting jobs, and she's also a very, very accomplished stage actress.
I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy parents; it wasn't forced upon me. They just said, 'See if you like it. If you do, great; if you don't, don't worry about it.' I was really fortunate to have that guidance and supportive parents.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.
I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
Aaron Tveit
Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
Aaron Yoo
I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
Aasif Mandvi
The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.
I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
I wasn't looking to be a star, I just happened to love acting, I was a reluctant actor.
Acting is more creative and liberating than production.
I realised that if I wanted to act, I needed to join theatre where I could improve my acting skills first and also show my talent.
When I moved to Mumbai I had no acting background and so was unable to make a breakthrough for years.
Acting in different languages doesn't stop you from growing; on the contrary, for an artiste, it helps a lot.
There is no such thing as playing someone else's character. Every actor takes a character and makes it his/her own while enacting it on screen.
Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.
Rohit Shetty liked my acting in the movie 'Theeran,' which released in 2017. He believed that I would justify the role of a baddie in 'Sooryavanshi.'
I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.
I love both acting and casting, and the idea will be to pursue both.
For me, it was always that one extra job that you do to survive in the industry. I also realised that I was not well-sculpted as an actor because I was getting a lot of rejections. I stopped acting and focused on casting.
When you are reacting to a good actor, your reactions become better. You get to know what to tone down and how to make yourself believe in those characters.
I would not want compliments that 'I can do different roles'. I want compliments that whatever I did, I did nicely. That's how I see acting.
Then there is Abhimanyu Ray, Honey Trehan, Nandini Srikanth, Shanoo Sharma, we have so many great casting directors who have nothing to do with acting. You just need to have a great eye to understand the character.
I did 'Dirty Picture' when I was only 24 years old. From there on, I kept on acting and learning about acting.
I was aiming for an acting career in 40. I never thought I would get recognition so early.
There are so many actresses I want to write for. I see them, and I think, 'Why is she not playing that lead? What's happened to that actress?' I think all I can do is to write parts for women, to say, 'Keep going, keep acting, because there are parts for you. There will be those plays.'
My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
Well, my brother started acting before I did.
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You'd think that my acting in 'Lost Angels' would have been the reason why I gave up on it. But yeah, I'm just not that good at it. Auditioning is super weird, and I'm bad at it.
I was not thinking about getting into acting in any way.
I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.
I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
