I still say I would love to go back to acting, but after my kids are older. You can't just drop everything and go out on a call and keep a stable life.
There's life after acting.
Acting is kind of a forced compassion, where you learn that given certain circumstances, you can feel and do things that you never thought yourself capable of. And so it stops you from being super-judgmental.
The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.
Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?
The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.
I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.
I talked with Tom Hanks. I saw that movie 'Turner and Hooch' at least 50 times. It took all my guts to go up to him. I went up to him, I was like, 'Can I have a picture?' We talked acting; he wanted to know what I was doing. We talked a little tennis. I mean, he knew all about myself and my sister.
I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.
You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.
[Elijah Wood] has got such a broad outlook. It's so much bigger than just the acting industry.
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin.
The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with acting when you're in the groove, and you and what you're trying to do are seamlessly one. That happens sometimes, and I'm really happy it can happen to me.
And then in the FBI report it says that Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the FBI because of her concussion because she didn't have a memory. But she was acting as secretary of state at the time which means we had a secretary of state who was acting who doesn't have a memory of what she was doing.
It certainly helps, I think, with some actors to understand the process of acting. You see what extraordinary pressure they're under, there's a huge circus dedicated to a particular moment and they're got to deliver and it can help that you, even if empathetically alone, understand what they're doing.
I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.
My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first
In a lot of ways, I was kind of crossing lines of what I thought I was comfortable doing. I had to do all this naked stuff.
When you read a script, you don't want to be the same guy all the time, you want to change, you're a different person. That's why acting is a wonderful career. You're not the same guy all the time.
Acting is a really insular thing.
I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.
Success is the consequence of first having dreams and then acting upon them.
When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.
