Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.
The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me.
I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.
Once I got started acting I loved it.
Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.
I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.
I've been acting for 27 years, and anonymity has always been a part of what I do. Of course you get recognised every now and again, but 'Homeland' pushed me into a completely different strata, and that took me by surprise.
Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.
The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. When I made the switch to acting, I was able to break that down into small, measurable goals like I did with bodybuilding.
A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.
I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.
I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.
People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
You want to mix acting styles correctly. People approach the work in different ways. You want to make sure no one wants to kill each other because the approach is different.
I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.
I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.
The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I was growing up and getting more serious about acting, at that point, he was the biggest actor in the world.
There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.
If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.
I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
My early acting was ingenue stuff.
I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
