I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.
I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.
A fight scene with a crazy can be quite physical. You don't feel it while you're acting, but each day you go, that hurts.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.
I don't care much about acting.
For me, rehearsal is very important, and I spend a lot of time doing it. Also, I work with my acting teacher for hours and hours before walking onto any set.
A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.
Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.
I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.
I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.
Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.
I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.
My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.
Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.
You can count on one hand the white rappers that have made it. So I just wanted to show the point of view of an actor in Hollywood, because what could be more soft than that. Rapping about auditions and acting and stuff. I thought it was just uncharted territory to clown on, so that pushed through with Dirt Nasty.
I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University of Illinois. I didn't study acting until I moved to Los Angeles after college, but the fact that I was raised in the Chicago area set the stage for all of my comedic and acting sensibilities.
Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.
I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.
I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.
I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.
It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.
I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around - it was all very organic.
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
I was in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, on a scholarship. I was - still am - an artist. They were looking for an actor for 'Take a Giant Step,' and a producer liked my look and asked if I could act. I said, 'Yep!' Then I got into acting more or less just to make money for paints and canvases.
I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
I love acting; I don't want to give up on it at all, but it would be nice to step behind the camera once in a while as well.
