I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.
Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately looking for love and not finding anyone.
Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.
Do you see what I mean?! About the theater?! I'm back here for three hours and I'm acting like a lunatic. I'll be in analysis till I'm a hundred
I feel like I've reached a point where music has become just as much a priority to me as my acting, and I'm glad to feel that way.
I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.
Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!
Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'
I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.
Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.
I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.
I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.
If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.
I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting
There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.
Very rarely have I worked with a director where we've been at odds. And by the time you've actually talked to somebody and you have the job, there's something that they see in you that they want you to bring to the character. And the best director says very little to you, acting-wise. They usually just say, "Okay, here's the shot." It's their job to do all that stuff, and your job's to do the acting. So it's very rare that somebody will say, "Oh, no. I conceived this very differently".
I read a lot, I always read. I like to be inside a story. When I started acting, even in high school, it sort of felt like that's as close as you can get to being inside a book, and I feel that way even with movies more so, because you've kind of created this imaginary world, and everybody is colluding to create it.
When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too.
That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.
Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.
Death is just the last scene of the last act.
I realized that acting was the thing I was still maybe the best at. Of the things I felt like I was good at, that was the thing that came the most naturally to me.
Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so Im going to actually start working on my own.
