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I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
There are very few VR games with really strong characters and voice acting.
After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.
It's funny - when I started acting, I didn't know I was going to be talking about Asian-American issues so much. You know what, though? It just comes with the territory, being ethnic.
I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.
I left acting for a couple of years to found my company, Wayfarer, and the first project I did was this documentary series I created called 'My Last Days' to remind us that our time is limited and to inspire us to do more and to be the best selves that we can be.
I did theatre a lot when I was a kid. Then I went to acting school in New York. I did a lot of behind the scenes in college. I wanted to learn while I had the time. I studied theatre and film in different capacities.
I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.
If the characters are acting true to themselves, then that chemistry and suspense will flow.
The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.
If I wasn't acting, I would probably be working with children. I was a camp counselor growing up and I loved it.
It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.
I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.
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.
Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?
Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.
Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.
I want to do directing and acting. I can do them at the same time - it's a challenge, but it's my dream.
I only know acting. But had I learnt singing earlier, I would have become a singer.
When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.
I was lucky, and once I moved to L.A., I didn't have to get another job besides acting. But I wouldn't trade my previous jobs for anything.
Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.
I moved to California in 2011 to be a writer. A family friend told me to take acting classes so I could do commercials and actually make a little money.
I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.
I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.
British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.
Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.
Acting is something that I've always wanted to do and been interested in.
It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there because of my acting rather than who I'm being photographed with.
Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.
I started acting professionally when I was about 17. I worked immediately, but a year into it, I did an independent film in Canada, and that started it all. It was proof that maybe I could do this as a career.
Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.
I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.
I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.
It took a while to decide I wanted to do Hamlet. It wasn't that I was daunted - I'd been acting professionally since my mid-20s and had some pretty big Shakespearean roles under my belt by that stage, at 32: Petruchio in 'The Taming of the Shrew,' Edgar in 'King Lear,' Antony, Richard III. But when it came to Hamlet, I hesitated.
As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.
I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.
I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'
All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.
For actors, when you first get the project and you see that it's a Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman-produced project, right away, from an acting standpoint, you go, 'Wow. That'd be great to be part of that. What a career move that'd be.'
I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.
I love acting, I love directing, I love writing, I love producing, I love creating.
I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.
I imagine that, for most people, acting isn't something they think is a viable option, whereas for me, it was the most viable option. No adults around me knew how to do anything else.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.
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.
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.
My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.
That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37.
Acting became a powerful tool for change. You had to tell stories that were important to you.
I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.
Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.
The thing about good acting is asking, how much are you going to reveal and when should you let the viewers' imagination take over?
I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.
When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.
I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.
I'm in love with the entire industry and every aspect of performing and directing, even writing, and I love working with acting students.
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.
I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.
I really do want to act, I love acting, and I want to do it in the long run.
There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.
I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general.
I don't take acting classes - I'm quite an autodidact. I prefer to learn from other actors by watching various movies. Evaluate my acting, spot the flaws and fix them.
Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.
I've been doing both music and acting since I was pretty little. Just for fun. Being able to peruse both professionally is the greatest thing in the whole world.
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