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Riley Smith Quote: 'Acting is perception, and as long ...'

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A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.


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I feel that if I'm going through something, I'm sure someone else is, too. I try to be as honest with myself and others as I can be.
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I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
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I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.


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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.


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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.


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I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I am just me. I like boxing and acting and doing my charity work.


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The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself.


Paula Patton
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To be honest, there are so many things I learned in acting school beyond the method; it was a safe place to practice. So acting school was about exercising that acting muscle and doing it every single day - and having people tell you that you're bad every single day! Which pushes you to work even harder.
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I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.
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If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.


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The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
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I'm not cooking every day anymore, and that's the biggest withdrawal. Cooking is honest work. Now I don't know how to measure myself.
David Chang
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If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.
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All of my experiences modeling, acting, doing theater, it's all in the work now. And the work freed me to transform myself.
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In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.
Larry David