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Because I came into acting late, my references come from real life. That's my biggest inspiration. It's probably the reason I moved back to New York. I'm just a lot more inspired by real life than I am by depictions of real life.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio.

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

Because of acting I've gotten to travel and meet so many amazing people, and they inspire new songs.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.

Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

Before doing stand-up, I thought acting was easy - it's not easy. It's a hard life. It's easy in its own way, you just stand there and talk. But there is a difference between people who can do it well and people who can't.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting is obviously what you strive for because you want to better yourself as an actor and you want to better yourself as a person as well. But that does come with a lot of responsibility and a great deal of weight.

Being a Kapoor, acting is genetic. My sister paved the way for me when she became the first Kapoor girl to take up acting.

Being an actor is definitely not about sitting around on set and having a cigarette or something. It's about acting. The more you can audition, then that's the best thing ever because you learn so much and you get your face out there and you grow your confidence.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

Being pro-life doesn't save babies, acting pro-life does.

Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.

Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

Believing in yourself you gain confidence, which allows you to relax. Relaxation is one of the most important parts about acting.

Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.

Ben Affleck inspired me and reignited my love for acting and filmmaking. It was a big part of getting me to a place where I felt inspired to make my own movie.

Besides acting which is my first love, I am also interested in behind the scenes.. Directing , writing and producing.

Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.

Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s)

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.

Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom. I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business, which is where I am now.

But actually my dad is a very talented director and not just his use of shots and camera, but he's very good with actors and he knows acting well. It's great to see him do that and be really good at it and he's been doing it for a while and he certainly knows how to make movies, and little movies I guess for a television show, and he's going to come back in November to direct a second episode, which I'm really excited about.

British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are so used to the angle from which the Americans, and certainly the young guys from LA, are coming at it, that I think it's interesting for them to find these English actors who maybe approach acting from a different place.

But acting is my main profession so it's about finding the right balance. I don't know how, if I went any further with the music, I would manage to do both - I would have to take time off from acting because I couldn't do both at same time. I could do six months on and six months off perhaps. But I'm really proud of the record. I've worked on it for a while and I'm really glad to finally get the album out, having done three EPs prior to its release.

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge

But it's healthy - whatever you can do to keep you fresh and awake. Acting's such a ridiculous job and sometimes you need to look at it like that to get a sort of degree of freshness.

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.

By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.