I feel so comfortable in an acting role, you know, as an actor. Maybe it's because I came into it late. If anything, I've felt frustrated that I can't carry a film because everything since 'District 9' has been supporting roles.
Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.
When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.
I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.
My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.
Comedy prepared me for drama. There are a couple techniques you can think of. One of my acting teachers said that comedy is like ping-pong, and drama is tennis. You take things a bit slower, so you do get to breathe more and take some more time.
I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.
Playing Karen was so satisfying that it almost cured my acting bug completely. Not that I had conquered the world of acting. It was just that I had something to prove to myself when I started Will & Grace. Now I feel like, okay, well, I've satisfied that.
What I love about acting is that you are exposed to so many different things. Horse-riding, sailing, travelling to amazing places.
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.
Funnily enough, when I was leaving school and they asked you what you were going to do, and I just liked acting, that's never what I would say. I would always say I would go into business, even though I didn't really know what was meant by that.
Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.
I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an interest in the arts. I took piano lessons and singing lessons, acting lessons. So it was all new to them, but my parents were great.
If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.
When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.
I like to read. I go to movies quite a bit. I often go to see friends in theater productions. I hike, stretch and work out. I like to sing. I love going back to acting class and working on new material.
I did theatre when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.
Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.
When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.
I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.
At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you're going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.
Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.
I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.
When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.
What you wear for work should be comfortable and empowering. If you're working in business, your outfit should mean business. If I go to meet somebody about an acting job, or something creative, then I'll be in my jeans. For me, overdressing is my biggest fear.
Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.
Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me.
It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.
