When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.
Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.
Acting is way of making yourself exist.
I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.
This nation loves singing and loves acting.
I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.
There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
I honestly always thought my Master's in Fine Arts would get me further in the acting world than knowing how to work an espresso machine!
Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.
I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.
The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.
The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist.
If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity.
Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make some money and pay the bills.
Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.
By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?
My advice is to make acting your second career choice.
To those acting against peace, civilization and the world order: We will oppose you.
The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.
I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
Acting doesn't suffice.
I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
It's true with fashion, acting, anything: Make sure it's timeless, but at the same time, there's got to be a little hint of risk.
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.
I think I read films having grown up around the pre-production and post-production aspect of the filmmaking medium, a lot more than most young people who are in acting would have experienced. I do think about scripts in a different way. I can't just read a script as an actor. I don't know how to do that.
I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.
I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.
