Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.
I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar. My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! It's refreshing!!
Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.
We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'
Will Smith's acting reaffirms my belief in the American perfection.
Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.
In the beginning, when you're acting in amateur theater and off-Broadway, it was unheard of that anyone else would get your costume. And it was important to get a good costume. You put time into that.
I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.
Acting is a form of confession.
As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.
I hail from a small town. My parents were never apprehensive about my decision to take up acting - they've been a constant support to me.
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
Acting's more of a business for me now.
Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.
Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey', is, I've kind of made a concerted effort to hijack my acting career to turn it into film school, because I've always had the blasphemous idea of becoming a reasonably competent filmmaker in my own right some day.
Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.
I love acting and I have a lot of fun.
I'm acting from my heart. The way how I feel is the way how I act.
I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.
I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.
There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.
I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.
If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.
Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Acting scares me.
I'm really passionate about music. I do love acting, but music is the end goal for me.
The thing about Marvel is that they're not - they're into real acting. They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters. Even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else.
