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I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

I don't need to be successful. I love theater and I love acting so as long as I'm doing that I'm happy and I'm learning. If I end up going back to the U.K. to do some theater, great! Sounds fantastic.

I don't really do acting. I've done a little bit - enough to know I'll stick to what I know. Music is my thing.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].

I don't really think I have the personality. I am not very external. I don't want to dance on the table and do impressions. So I think that the way I approach it is really loving story. That's my first love - the words. The words and the story and how to create images. I guess I come at that as a director. I think that's much more in my personality to be a director, so that's kind of informed my acting.

I don't really like watching my stuff. It makes me feel sick. You imagine you look a certain way in your head, and when it looks even the slightest bit different from what you imagine, you go, 'Rubbish!'

I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting.

I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.

I don't remember ever not knowing about acting.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

I don't see many people with longevity anymore. Everything was harder when I started, and you had to take acting lessons, do theater parts, work on connections and then get lucky. The technology is good, but it's also a hindrance for longevity.

I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.

I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows.

I don't think a Hollywood actor is safe from acting in the rain: it all depends on the film.

I don't think eliminating the knowing-doing gap depends on the amount of knowledge around. It depends much more on people's attitudes and intentions - do they actually want to turn knowledge into action, or just go through the motions of acting as if they are busy or are accomplishing something.

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

I don't think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.

I don't think my acting was ever bad; I always knew that I could do it. But when you go to audition for a drama, they're very serious in the room, and I was used to being kind of goofy and having small talk.

I don't think of myself as a star. An actress is nothing remarkable.

I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor you'll always get bad acting. Every actor is scared just like a regular person.

I don't think that the forms of feminism that are prevailing on campus are left wing. It's a conservative form of feminism in gender politics and there [isn't] anything particularly progressive about it. That's what is baffling. You've got conservatives acting like liberals touting free speech and due process.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I don't want to make decisions about what I'm going to do before I'm doing it because I base my acting off my partner and off the other people in the scene.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

I don't want to watch [films I was acting in]. I've had enough of me.

I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.

I do tend to like movies that challenge me, professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two or five actors, and it's all about the acting and not the camera.

I'd prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.

I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I'm acting. I just love characters and stories with conflict.

I do these things, as an actor, that I would have been oblivious to, if I hadn't studied acting. You start to understand the emotions and feelings, as close as you can get to them. That really helps. Acting literally saved my life. It helped me not become one of the statistics of all the military members taking their lives because of depression and PTSD.

I’d say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress – I like 'em both, so I hope I don’t have to choose.

I do think that acting is such an unpredictable job, and you're away a lot. If you're dating somebody outside the industry, it can be hard to understand that.

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

I enjoy directing, but I really like acting more. The idea of controlling the whole thing is not something that really appeals to me as much as being able to just control the world of the character that I'm dealing with.

I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.