It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has.
To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.
Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.
In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.
Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.
The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.
I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.
You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.
The entire religion revolves around acknowledging the truth and then acting upon it.
If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.
I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.
It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.
On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.
I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.
