I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.
That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.
I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.
One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.
I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.
I have been acting for over 20 years and I started in the smallest little theater that you can possibly imagine and then I very slowly built myself to this point. So it is never like there is this real sharp change or something that really startled me. It has just been very gradual.
Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.
Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.
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I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.
I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.
John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.
If I weren't acting I'd be a very unhappy, unfulfilled woman.
Study your craft, first. Then explore the business side. If you can commit to mastering both, then you're ready to pursue acting as a living. I really want people to understand that you can't take shortcuts.
Even when you're acting with a producing hat, when you're in every scene, you're really conscious of trying to make everybody as good as they are, because ultimately you're trying to make the best movie possible.
Acting is such a weird job.
You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.
Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.
Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].
I went to acting school for like a year and ended up doing voiceovers and stuff. I could have done a lot more with it but at the time I really wasn't taking it seriously.
Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.
