A Quote by Jay Duplass
I thought acting was showboating.
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I don't mind showboating. Sports are supposed to be fun.
I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.
Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.
Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about being a priest at one point. I thought about being a teacher. I thought about being a lawyer. But I think acting is probably the best job for me.
Acting is always something I thought I could do, and I thought I would be pretty good at it, but I thought that I missed the opportunity, that it was too late.
I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.
I kind of hid acting from my dad because I knew what he thought about acting at the time. His advice was "Don't do it," basically.
I want to be as creatively disruptive as possible. I want to be radically transparent in a way that isn't showboating.
I always had a thought about acting but it never seemed practical to take it as an option because I do not have acting or theatre background.
At that age, filming Harry Potter, I never contemplated. I just went in there and did my acting. I never thought, "What's the character actually feeling here? What's he trying to get across?" And never looked at it from that classically trained actor's point of view. And so when Jason Isaacs started throwing up these ideas, I thought, "Whoa. What an interesting way to look at acting." Which is why, again, I would do theater.
I just randomly fell into acting. I was so young at the time that I never really thought about acting... After I was into it, I had a feeling that I was going to end up doing this anyway somehow.
Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.
I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting.
Music is my thing. In fact, that's what I wanted to do. I thought of myself as a musician. I had never thought about acting.
I was very shy about acting. I thought you had to be confident. I was confident with my friends, but I would never think of acting in front of anyone else.
I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that.
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