I wanted to be performer; like, I used to dance at weddings. I felt acting was my calling, and that is something I wanted to do.
I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.
Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.
There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
I was really into films when I was younger, but I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn't know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn't want to do any of the courses.
And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
I was in the video for Cyndi Lauper's 'Sally's Pigeons' when I first started acting.
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.
Acting's fun, but life's more important.
For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.
It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.
The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.
Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.
I just want to bring as much natural as I can. I'm not saying that people who take acting lessons are false. They're much better than I am, but it doesn't work for me.
When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
I'm acting in a new show on NBC with Kristen Bell and Ted Danson, which is definitely the scariest thing I've ever done.
I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to be having more fun than I was. He convinced me to give acting a shot, but because of my shyness I was sure it would be a lost cause.
In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing.
My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones, but it's not like working a 9-5 job and only having two or three weeks off a year. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly.
I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.
I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'
I studied acting at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh because I figured a good comedian certainly could act.
I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
