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I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Acting Aside Ballerina Being Build Craft Gift How Know Level Like May Method Obliged Table Taught Teachers Trained Violinist Were Whatever You

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Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: About Acting Come Dance Feel Felt Hand Just Lake My Own Own Put Shoes Some Swan Taught Toe Violin Way Would You Your

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I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: Acting Actor Arts Audition Before High High School Lee Performing Performing Arts School Studied Studio Teachers Years

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Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

~Ellen Burstyn

Topics: Acting Actress Admire Appreciate Art Began First Good Later Most Out Say Started Taste Very Well Would

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Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.

~Ellen Page

Topics: About Acting Appear Arc Body Even Film Language Physical Through Very Your

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Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.

~Ellen Pompeo

Topics: Acting Amazingly Cathartic Girl Thing Young Young Girls

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I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

~Ellen Pompeo

Topics: Acting Anybody Big Big Deal Deal Find Life Living Make Noble Particularly Saving Some Teacher Think Unicef Way Working

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Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

~Ellen Terry

Topics: Acting Foundations Good Good Acting Pace Vary

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I am not intimidated by puerile boys acting like pre-teens.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Acting Am Boy Intimidated Like I Am

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I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

~Ellen Wong

Topics: Acting Being Creative Feel Inspired Just Keep Role Want

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