You have to be very specific on the technical part of the acting.
When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.
Music is my thing. In fact, that's what I wanted to do. I thought of myself as a musician. I had never thought about acting.
I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.
The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.
I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.
I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.
I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.
When I'm not acting, you'll probably either find me playing a game or working on my YouTube channel.
I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have.
I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.
Many reality shows have failed because everyone's acting.
Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.
I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.
I started acting as a way to support myself.
I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.
I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.
A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.
British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.
I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.
My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
I don't hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hated that sexy image, hated those pictures of me onstage, hated that big raunchy person. Onstage, I'm acting the whole time I'm there. As soon as I get out of those songs, I'm Tina again.
Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.
People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.
I don't believe that you can learn acting in a classroom.
Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.
If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
I was nervous. I was thinking, 'Gee, he's Ralph Fiennes. What an amazing actor, and I can have this scene with him.' But I enjoyed it, you know. That's what I got into acting to do - to push myself and see if I can do these things.
I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.
I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.
When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting.
There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels.
I was dancing when I was acting as well. Actors generally dance in performances like in an award function.
