A Quote by Joan Chen

Acting is actually private.

Joan Chen

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Acting Actually Private

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Joan Chen
Chinese - Actress
Born: April 26, 1961

I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.

Yvonne Strahovski

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.

Melissa Ordway

What I like is the acting itself. But I'm a lousy celebrity. I'm not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a difference between me and whoever it is I'm playing.

Tyne Daly

I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.

Lynne Stewart

Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.

Elizabeth Goudge

I tend to be very private. It's easier for me. When you're acting, you're very susceptible to comments that somebody makes, so if they know something is going to happen on the show, and they say something, it can actually throw you off. So I tend to not share things with anybody.

Tom Noonan

Actually, I didn't take up acting. Rather, acting chose me.

Poonam Dhillon

I started acting when I was 5 or so. I just did acting for fun, not actually to be an actor.

Emma Kenney

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

Rebecca Solnit

People assume that displaying your own personal ego on screen is called acting, which is actually not what acting is about.

Kay Kay Menon

Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.

Claudia Christian

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

Evangeline Lilly

A lot of acting is private time.

Al Pacino

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.