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Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.
Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
Israel is much more effective when the Israelis are convinced that we are on the moral high ground: that we are acting not just out of might, but also out of right.
People assume I'm posh because I'm one of the acting dames. I grew up in Tottenham and didn't used to speak like I do now.
There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
Over the years, I have worked professionally as a musician, photographer, and writer. I've been able to earn my living in other ways, but I always knew I'd come back to acting.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.
Once the second season of 'Haven' rolled around, I really started to attack this acting thing and finally admitted, 'OK, I'm an actor now. This is what I'm doing. This is my new career.'
I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.
The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.
If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.
My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.
Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.
I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.
So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.
I was shying away from acting for the longest time - because of having such big shoes to fill.
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.
Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.
You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me.
I'd really like to do a movie, either as a producer or director. My ultimate fantasy would be to direct a movie and produce the entire soundtrack. I don't really see myself acting.
For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush strokes, really. What makes acting different is empathy.
In England, I've had a more balanced career directing and acting. It can be quite difficult to juggle the two careers.
Before my acting took off, I drove a truck for an inventory company throughout the northeast, but my favorite non-acting job was working in the box office at the Public Theater.
I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.
A lot of people don't realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you're not just performing martial arts. You're not just performing martial arts. You're actually acting as much as any other actor.
If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.
You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.
I've never been interested in being famous. I enjoy acting. That's what's important to me.
It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.
I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.'
I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.
One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.
It feels like as you get a bit older, you've worked out the things that are good for your life apart from with acting.
I got the opportunity, and I grabbed it, and slowly, I started finding a lot of interest in acting.
People assume that acting is an easy job. When you actually do it, you know how hard that is.
Modelling is completely different from acting. They are two skills that you can't compare.
Commercials are 20 seconds long, so you don't get to experiment with your characters. But in films, you get to try out your acting skills.
While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.
The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee.
Actors used to concentrate on acting, but today they are businessmen, too, and think about the numbers game as well. They multi-task very well. It's admirable that they have this ability.
Though acting offers would keep coming and going, and I would pick up only the ones that I find good, my hands are literally full with candles... I can't think beyond them.
It's really so depressing to be still listed in the Social Register after all the acting I've done.
I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I'll whip out paints. It's tough to find the motivation, but it's also a solitary, lonely occupation. What I like about acting is that it is such a collaborative thing.
Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.
I'm often spotted when I'm staring at something open-mouthed and I'm sure people must think I'm not acting.
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
I'm definitely interested in acting. I've done it in my past. I know I can do it, let's put it that way. And it's so much fun.
Acting while I'm singing just kind of happened because I'm a hambone at heart, I guess. And I'm a Gemini - I've got several personalities to access as an actor.
My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of 'Les Miserables' in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from 'Psycho.' My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.
I took up acting upon the insistence of my filmmaker father, Kasthuri Raja. But I am glad for it: sometimes one identifies one's calling; sometimes it singles one out.
I don't mind acting in Hindi films, but the script has to suit me. It has to be a boy-next-door role because that's the image I have in Tamil cinema.
My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.
I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.
Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.
As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.
Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.
You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
Acting had become something I did and did well - but didn't particularly enjoy.
When I first started out acting, I didn't have anything to lose. I had another career. If I fell on my face, I could say, 'I'll see ya,' and go back to working.
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