If somebody is acting maladjusted - which means not happy to be at Rikers - the protocol, as I understand it and have been told by COs unofficially or officially, is to pepper spray that individual to sedate them.
There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.
I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.
Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?
It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped on.
I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.
I ask the stunt guys, all the time, to do as much of the stunts as possible, and they let me do a lot. They don't throw me through windows because they're not allowed to and I probably wouldn't say yes to that. But I have done a lot of physical acting before, in theater, so that comes very natural to me.
Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.
My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young age - was that I was tired of seeing wimpy Asian actors.
The power and depth of Japanese acting certainly inspired me, so I was determined that Hollywood was going to get a taste of that, that Americans were going to get a taste of Japanese action.
There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine. And I would tell you that I don't behave like a villain everyday, and that's true, I don't. But to say there's absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous.
To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.
You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.
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.
Acting is pretty much my whole life.
I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.
I was not seduced by the celebrity side of acting. However, as a British girl watching a lot of American TV, I saw that there was a whole world of opportunity in the States that I wanted to discover.
I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.
For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.
Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story
Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.
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.
I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.
