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In 1998, the acting roles suddenly bottomed out. I was no longer getting scripts; even my agent stopped calling. When I finally got him on the phone to ask him what was going on, he paused, then said: 'Well, Christine, you're 45.' I got rid of him.
If I could wave a magic wand and be anything, I'd be a really respected, really successful author. That's a hard combination to get, though. I really enjoy acting, and it's easier, frankly.
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.
Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.
Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.
I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' So I played a singer.
The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent... it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.
It was a natural progression for me to find that if acting was what made me most comfortable, the best thing for me to progress toward was television and film.
I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.
'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.
A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.
If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.
I was going to be in an acting school in London, and then I promptly got thrown out of an acting school in London. Well, it wasn't that I got thrown out as much as I was not invited back, which is the same thing, just more polite.
After my first movie was released, my wife and I went Bouley. A fantastic meal. The whole thing, getting dressed up, acting very adult-y, a lot of fun.
It was always theater for me. But part of that came out of the fact that I was always acting out as a kid. I was the kid who didn't play well with others.
I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.
For basically two years, I took acting classes and found my own stride in L.A.
A dubbing artiste does a lot of repair work for an artiste who doesn't naturally speak the language they are acting in.
At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.
I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.
When I lived in Ojai, I did community theater, and I was intrigued by acting.
I want to direct films, ultimately. Hopefully I'll have a fantastic career in acting and then go on to do that. That's my dream; that's the ultimate goal.
After the 'Golden Compass,' I wasn't sure if I'd ever get another acting job.
I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.
That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.
I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.
In acting, you can't do things for the money. You've got to do a project because you like it.
Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.
When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.
The whole reason I do what I do, both in music and acting, is to make people feel something, to really relate to what I do on a personal level.
Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.
I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.
I am greatly impressed with the BBC's TV adaption of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House.' The costumes, the sets, the acting and the screenplay are all superb. Every episode is riveting.
Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission.
I did do a local musical, 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar.' I played the young Sweet Georgia Brown. I was 13 years old. After that, I just decided that I had to pick one thing, acting or singing, and concentrate on that.
There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.
Acting is very personal. I don't want to be like anybody else. There are positions I would like to be in - like Meryl Streep's, for instance.
I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.
I really enjoy working. I really enjoy telling stories. I really enjoy acting. The idea that I would have a baby and stop doing that was unrealistic to me.
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that.
Acting's all about stepping out of the box, so I don't want to go to work every day and play Cassie Scerbo at all.
Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.
I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.
Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over.
I didn't expect to pursue acting at all, let alone TV and film, let alone New York or L.A. I was quite content doing Shakespeare out in Wisconsin.
Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
I grew up in Georgia, and I started acting in plays when I was like eight years old, and I always memorized everyone's parts, not just my own, and I always memorized everyone's blocking. Whenever anyone wasn't there, I would always jump in. I was very hands-on.
When I was a kid, I didn't know Canadians could be actors. I thought just Americans could get acting jobs.
I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.
I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.
There's nothing obvious or predictable in acting. That's what it means to be in this profession.
I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was - for lack of a better word - my calling.
Acting is reacting. That's when acting is great - when you say something, somebody said something, they make a face, they pose, they use something physical, then you react to that, then they react to you.
As an actress, my ultimate goal is to create a universal experience in my acting.
My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer acting as scientists.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.
I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.
I was just picked from the streets to do some acting, and that's how I got started.
When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.
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.
Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.
I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
What I do is not go outside. My hobby is that I write, so if I'm not acting or being a mom, I'm writing.
I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.
Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.
Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.
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