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I knew I wanted to act since I was 10, but I didn't actually start acting until I was in high school. My favorite play was 'Lilies of the Field.'
I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.
I don't discriminate against straight or gay people in casting; I'm open to good acting.
I tell stories, and I do it through writing, through acting, through my stand-up, and through directing. All the hats I wear - producing as well - ultimately, I am a storyteller.
There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.
I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.
I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California.
Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.
I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.
People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!
I got my B.F.A. at Wayne State. Moved to L.A. and got my M.F.A. from Cal Arts in acting and just worked hard.
I love acting since I was little girl. I went to school for it; that's all I worked on. That's all I prepared for.
You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?
My bag is acting or getting into an amusing situation and then sharing my amusement.
I wish I could say I had this master plan for a career, but I always thought acting was something I'd just do until I had a hit record.
I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.
Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.
I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.
I know that some actors take acting terribly seriously. I take it seriously in that if someone pays me to do it I know I have to deliver.
When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.
I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'
I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course.
I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.
I'm one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more 'naturalistic', whereas with some of the older generation it's more heightened. But I think there's room for both styles.
I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
When I discovered acting, I decided that's what I wanted to do above everything else. It was the first time I was passionate about anything.
By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.
With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting.
I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.
I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
Acting goes back a little ways for me. I supposed I started with theater growing up. It was mainly a social outlet and it was just kind of something I did for fun. I met a lot of good friends through it, so it really kept me involved.
I got a chance to act, and I have to say that acting is extremely fun and vital.
I was a very shy sort of person, and by acting different characters, I could immerse myself and make them do what, perhaps, I wouldn't do.
I want to have the same success in my acting career as I did in my boxing career.
I quite like being mobbed. After all, it is extremely nice to be recognised. That's what acting is all about - being recognised.
I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.
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.
'12 Angry Men' has a truly great collection of actors giving fantastic performances. It's an acting masterclass.
Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.
I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.
I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.
I moved to New York in '92 and got my graduate degree in acting from NYU - they have a great acting program. I graduated in '95.
There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.
I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything.
I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.
I've always been passionate about acting. I haven't been passionate about being famous.
It's like, if you sign a guy you know is a punk and a jerk, you can't complain like, 'Hey, the punk jerk is acting like a punk jerk!'
I don't know if I ever realized, initially, that I didn't tic when I was so focused on my acting. I think it was after I had already done it a few years, when I went, 'Hey, interesting that this happens.'
I think that the reason I became an actor, probably, underneath it, was that I spent my life acting normal.
When I'm acting and I have to remember my lines and put my mind in concert with my body, I don't tic.
I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always been a hobby of mine - I've been making beats and writing songs for as long or longer than I've been acting.
The greatest acting really is spoken without words, or at least I like to think that.
Honestly, I don't aspire to be a huge movie star. I really just fell in love with acting... Everything I do on-screen is very subtle.
'Smallville' gig was another one of those things I got through WWE. At that point, I had absolutely no aspirations to pursue acting.
I actually had a job while I was acting and was a nursing student, which I had to drop due to my 9-5 job at the time. I managed an instrument room at a hospital in the Bronx.
I text with my dad during every 'Scandal' episode. We talk story lines, acting, and fashion.
If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.
I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five - this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.
Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.
I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.
Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?'
I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.
My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.
Growing up, I wasn't sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.
I grew up in Sydney, Australia, and I started doing acting classes when I was in eighth grade.
I love to cook; I love to bake. It's, like, my favorite thing besides acting.
After working on 'Europa,' I found it incredibly freeing to speak English in a film, so it kind of sparked an interest in me as an artist to improve my acting.
I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.'
The number one rule of comedy acting is 'don't try to be funny.' Act as seriously as possible.
There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.
A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.
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