Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.
Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.
I had to study acting to basically educate myself.
I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural.
I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.
In life, you have to keep certain parts of yourself in check because you want to be a decent human being. But one of the guilty pleasures of acting is that sometimes you get to let a little something out that you don't in life because it's not right.
I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.
When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.
What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.
An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.
When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.
I work with my instincts. I don't have a process that I learned in an acting class whereby I break a script down or whereby I do a certain kind of research.
I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.
I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.
I don't think I'm great at acting. I think I'm great at directing.
Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?'
My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.
I would love to go do movies; I would love to kind of delve into other things. I did do acting and modeling before, when I was a kid, so it would be nice to use those things.
The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
For a lot of actors, there's a sort of code of honor around playing something other than yourself, which I just don't have. I love feeling like I'm - I won't even say acting out, but performing in some deep seam of my consciousness or my family's consciousness or my past. That's really amusing to me.
I don't want to find myself ever locked into what people think I should think or do. In my art, and acting, I have a universal vision of things, an international vision. Bigger and broader and beyond. 'Bigger than life' is always on my mind.
A lot of people are attracted to the acting profession because they think it's a cheap, easy, free ride. It really isn't.
I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.
Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.
That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.
At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
I find in film acting that however many years you have done it for, you can feel totally relaxed and at ease with the people around you, absolutely wonderful, then roll camera and a little part of you goes, 'Ugh'. It is learning how to manage that.
Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?
One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.
I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.
