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Amanda Seyfried "rarely" gives her best in movies.
The 29-year-old actress is currently starring in off-Broadway show 'The Way We Get By' and admits she works much harder on stage than on screen.
She said: "You can hide laziness in film, you can't hide on stage.
"You don't want to do that to people who have spent $100-400 on a ticket. You want to tell the story.
"I don't want to give anything but my best, and in films I rarely give my best."
And Amanda admits working in theatre is "tough" and requires a lot of sacrifices.
She said: "It's making me re-evaluate my ideas about where I thought I wanted my career to go.
"The theatre world is tough and you have to be willing to sacrifice a lot.
"Nobody has a personal life. It's hard to focus on anything else. I don't have time for hobbies, I barely have time for the gym and every meal I have is at the theatre.
"When I do movies, I usually knit. I also paint, but between these shows I'm either napping or meditating."
The blonde beauty also expressed her frustration at how her movie 'Lovelace' - a biopic of porn star Linda Lovelace - wasn't a box office smash, but she is very proud of the film.
She told Britain's Marie Claire magazine: "I was very frustrated by that. But I don't have any control once I've finished shooting and everyone has their own vision.
"That said, I still think it's the best thing I've ever done in terms of I respect the work I did in it - and I'm pretty self-deprecating for an actress. Playing someone else is really hard."

Dustin Hoffman thinks the film industry is in the "worst" shape it's ever been in.
The 77-year-old actor - who previously starred in 'The Graduate' and 'Rain Man' - has claimed that while the TV industry is riding the crest of a wave at the moment, the film business has hit an all-time low.
He reflected: "I think right now television is the best that it's ever been and I think that it's the worst that film has ever been - in the 50 years that I've been doing it, it's the worst."
In particular, Dustin bemoaned the mindset suggesting that good movies need to cost millions of dollars.
He told the Independent newspaper: "It's hard to believe you can do good work for the little amount of money these days.
"We did 'The Graduate' and that film still sustains, it had a wonderful script that they spent three years on, and an exceptional director with an exceptional cast and crew, but it was a small movie, four walls and actors, that is all, and yet it was 100 days of shooting."

Simon Kinberg has revealed 'Deadpool' is "graphic".
The 41-year-old producer has revealed that the new sci-fi movie, starring Ryan Reynolds, will see boundaries pushed to the limit.
He said: "Deadpool is a hard R.
"It's graphic. Nothing is taboo. You either commit to a truly outrageous boundary-pushing kind of movie or you don't."
Elsewhere, director Tim Miller has revealed the film has been inspired by the work of David Fincher, who directed 'Gone Girl' in 2014.
He told Entertainment Weekly: "I felt 'Fight Club' and Tyler Durden were good corollaries.
"We are in strip clubs and dive bars and crappy apartments and far away from the shiny 'X-Men' world."
Earlier this year, Ryan Reynolds said 'Deadpool' won't be the typical comic book movie.
He explained the much-anticipated film will be shot on a small budget and so he told fans to expect something a little offbeat.
He said: "It's not like an X-Men movie where there's this gigantic budget. It's quite a small film. It's very difficult to weave that character into other comic movies. He knows he's in a comic book.
"If he met Wolverine, he'd greet him as Hugh Jackman. It's tough to create a meta-universe within another universe that doesn't have any of those components."

Mark Wahlberg relies on his boxing obsession to get in shape for roles.
The 44-year-old actor has revealed how some intense method acting helped him slim down for his role in the crime thriller 'Broken City' and then bulk up to play the part of a body builder for 'Pain & Gain'.
Asked how he manages to transform his body shape so quickly, the Hollywood star told Men's Health magazine: "A liquid diet, running, jumping rope.
"Mostly jumping rope. Jumping rope is for me a lot more fun than running the treadmill, or even running out in the open.
"It's more rhythmic. You can change the speeds. It's a great part of boxing training. And I'm obsessed with boxing."
Mark starred as former professional boxer Micky Ward for the 2010 movie 'The Fighter', which also featured Christian Bale, and subsequently admitted to suffering a few injuries on the set of the film.
He revealed: "I picked up a lot of nicks and bumps and bruises. I almost got my nose broken a couple of times. But nothing that would have stopped production.
"We basically lied to the insurance company and told them we weren't going to be hitting each other and then went in there and that's all we did."

Steve Wozniak thinks "accuracy is second to entertainment" in the new 'Steve Jobs' movie.
The 64-year-old Apple co-founder - who's played by Seth Rogen in the eagerly-awaited new film - has revealed he's not asked to see a copy of the script and accepts the film won't be totally accurate to real-life events.
Asked whether he's seen the script, he said: "I do not think that would be appropriate.
"It is the creative work of the producer and writer and actors and director and others ... Accuracy is second to entertainment in a movie like this."
And although Steve doesn't recognise himself in the performance of Seth Rogen, he admitted the general tone of the movie is accurate.
He told Bloomberg: "I don't talk that way. I would never accuse the graphical interface of being stolen. I never made comments to the effect that I had credit (genius) taken from me.
"The lines I heard spoken were not things I would say but carried the right message, at least partly. I felt a lot of the real Jobs in the trailer, although a bit exaggerated."
The Danny Boyle-directed 'Steve Jobs' is set for release in October 2015.

Ben Affleck regrets starring in 'Daredevil'.
The 42-year-old actor has admitted the 2003 superhero movie - in which he stars as a blind man whose other four senses are superhuman - "didn't work".
Ben said: "'Daredevil' didn't work, at all. If I wanted to go viral I would be less polite. That was before people realized you could make these movies and make them well. There was a cynical sense of 'Put a red leather outfit on a guy, have him run around, hunt some bad guys, and cash the check.' "
'Daredevil' hasn't put Ben off of playing superheroes however, as he's about to star as Batman in 'Batman v Superman', and promises his second run will be better.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the 'Gone Girl' star said: "They really learned how to make this stuff work. Good is the new bad."
As Batman has been played by various different actors over the years - Christian Bale was last in the 'Dark Knight' trilogy - Ben has referred to the character as Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and says that his version is at the "end of his run".
Ben said: "He's at the end of his run and maybe the end of his life. There's this sort of world-weariness to it.
"Batman is basically the American version of Hamlet. We accept that he's played by actors with different interpretations."

Katherine Heigl thinks her parents are "jerks" for making her play the cello.
The 36-year-old actress - who plays the guitar in new romantic drama 'Jackie & Ryan' - has revealed she never got the opportunity to learn the instrument during her school years because of her parents, Nancy and Paul Heigl.
She shared: "I was supposed to be able to play the cello. My parents, the jerks they are, made me take the cello but whatever, they made me play the violin.
"Like, 'No, take the biggest, most cumbersome, most annoying instrument to travel to school with.' So from fifth grade through high school I played the cello and took private lessons, but never practiced at home. My orchestra teacher was super cool. I'd ask him if I could skip class and he would let me."
Katherine explained that as a consequence, she never learned the instrument she most wanted to.
She told Nylon magazine: "So I never really properly learned enough, and when we had concerts I was second row and I would sit behind the first chair and mimic everything she did without really touching my bow to the strings.
"My parents thought I was so brilliant, but I was faking it the whole time. So I don't play any instruments, but I'm really good at faking it."

'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark' is to debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London with a full concert orchestra.
The iconic movie - starring Hollywood legend Harrison Ford - was released in 1981 and its 35th anniversary will be marked with two special screenings at the world famous venue.
Lucy Noble, Royal Albert Hall's director of events, said: "Raiders is one of the most purely enjoyable movies in cinema history, with one of the greatest, most instantly recognisable scores.
"We've wanted to bring Indy to the Hall for years, and we're delighted to announce that it's finally happening.
"35 years on, this show will allow you to experience the magic of Raiders of the Lost Ark in a totally new way."
The Steven Spielberg-directed 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' tells the story of Dr. Indiana Jones' quest to find the Ark of the Covenant, which he believes to still hold the ten commandments.
The two shows - both of which are to be staged in March 2016 - will see John Williams' spectacular score played live on stage by the 21st Century Orchestra and tickets for the event are priced between £28 and £73.90.

Michael Fassbender learned "182 pages of dialogue" for the Steve Jobs movie.
The 38-year-old actor's on-screen co-star Kate Winslet has revealed the extraordinary lengths Michael went to star in the new movie, which comprises three separate 45-minute scenes that are each continuous.
Kate shared: "We have nine-minute takes, sometimes even longer.
"I think there's a scene that Michael and Jeff [Daniels] had that was about 14 pages, so it really went for 11 minutes of continuous dialogue.
"It's not unusual for an actor to learn huge passages of dialogue when you do a play. But it is unusual for an actor like Michael Fassbender to learn 182 pages of dialogue of which he's on every page. It's like Hamlet, times two."
Meanwhile, Kate said the unusual way the film about the technology whiz has been shot made it an "extraordinary" experience.
She told Entertainment Weekly: "The way in which that film was shot was extraordinary... extraordinary.
"Each act is continuous 45 minutes backstage of real time at each launch that Steve Jobs made during those time periods - '84 was the launch of the Macintosh, '88 was the NeXT computer, '98 was the iMac. Each act takes place backstage and literally ends with him walking from the wings on to the stage to rapturous applause."