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One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.
When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18.
I played basketball. I went to school and played basketball and was trying to pursue that as a career path and kind of just fell into acting.
Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing. Directing is very musical.
I knew I wanted to try comedy and acting. Even if I failed, at least I would have tried. It's better than never having tried.
I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.
I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.
Acting has been my first passion, and turning a producer was a natural progression.
Compared to boxing, acting is more difficult. I have learnt martial arts and boxing since childhood. So, they were easier.
My main goal for taking up acting as a profession was to show that sport or MMA teaches you life skills that can be applied to any profession in the world.
Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.
The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.
This acting is going to leave my stain. Not just my mark, because you can wipe a mark off. But a stain: it's going to take a whole lot to get that out, and that's how I'm going to leave my stain on this world.
The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.
Fashion is really interesting to me, but I'm not a professional model, so I'm focusing my career on acting.
For as long as I've been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom.
I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.
I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I got interested. It felt natural to switch over.
Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.
I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.
My favourite compliment now is that people are talking about my acting, my craft - not my torso.
If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.
In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of evil, basically, and convinced himself that Saddam was fundamentally Adolf Hitler reborn. I think his feelings towards Saddam were in fact quite genuine and quite legitimately hostile. He was not play acting.
Many Americans say they want to be organ donors, but they just don't get around to acting on their intentions. Helping these potential good Samaritans overcome their inertia could prolong thousands of lives a year.
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.
I don't have an acting coach, but the closest thing I have would be some of my peers that are my close friends. We bounce ideas off each other and help one another run our lines all the time.
I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.
When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.
Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself, you don't need those techniques.
I don't have tremendous physical vitality since I had a neck operation, and I'm more aware than I used to be of the tedium of acting.
If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely.
I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.
So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.
I've always had a passion for acting, without really realising that that's what I should be doing.
I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.
People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.
Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.
I want to do acting as much as I can. When you're on contract with a show, you can't really do other shows. It's hard to do film. I haven't had the opportunity to even audition much for films because I don't have an agent.
I never thought I could model, and I certainly never thought about acting. It's just something that happened to me.
Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.
Nothing is better than showing up twice a week, acting like a 12 year-old for two hours, and then going home.
Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.
The world is being destroyed by psychopaths, so of all the things to be concerned about - acting, it's not really up there, is it?
I'm not really trying to get in the acting field that hard. I'm trying to really be behind the scenes and direct and produce.
The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.
Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.
I fell into acting by going to a callback for J.C. Penney with my two older brothers when I was 4 1/2 years old. The casting director saw me and asked to bring me in the room with them. The three of us ended up booking the commercial!
My greatest satisfaction in acting on television is to have the opportunity to communicate with the world.
Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.
I went to elementary like any other kid, but I was just always a little different. I had that sparkle, and everyone told my mom, 'She needs to be on TV, acting.'
Naseer Sir taught me while I was a student at the Film and Television Institute of India. Anything I know about acting is thanks to him.
I'm not going to take up an acting class in order to get a fight. That is not what I've worked my entire life to do. It's not what I've been living for.
Potentially, you do inhabit different worlds. And while there are no specific roles I'm burning to play, as far as acting in the future goes, I'd really like to have done searing work.
I had never thought that I would get into acting but I was very cute and pretty looking.
Work is work for me. I can do any work in the field of acting. Be it films, television or theatre, I am willing to do anything.
I always wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little kid. I knew that I had to do something related to performing arts, and I enjoyed acting the most as it incorporated so many different art forms.
I just stick to my job, which is acting. Things like posters, publicity material, and promotions are entirely the film-maker's prerogative. I don't get into all of that.
Acting just didn't seem like a viable option. I didn't have any connections in the industry, and I had little support from my family. Also, there just weren't a lot of Asian-Americans on TV or in the movies.
I ended up going into the Master's program for Asian-American studies at UCLA, in part because I was passionate about it, but also because I wanted to keep acting in the theater group that we founded.
Early on, when I first started acting professionally, it was really important for me to get my parents on board, because they were so against it.
I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
Everyone's amazed by the question that how did I succeed as an actor in the industry, which has Kamal Haasan? It's because I grew as an actor watching Kamal's acting.
When '36 Chowringhee Lane' was released in 1981, I was a student of the Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu. Everyone who had seen the film was very impressed with its flawless direction and acting. But we, cinematography students, were stunned by the visual style, which was truly international.
After my schooling, I started theatre. By the time I graduated, I was doing theatre 24x7. Luckily, the FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) acting course started.
People claim that no good actors came out of FTII after Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi. What they don't know is that the acting course was closed for 26 years and reopened only in 2004.
After acting for four years, in five languages, theatre became my stepping stone to TV and cinema.
While acting with Amitabh Bachchan, the legend of Hindi cinema, and superstars like Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar, I observed how they interpret cinema and make it an experience to cherish for their audiences.
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