In an interview Errol Flynn said that his hobby was acting but he doesn't have time for it.
There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.
Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.
I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because its not necessarily the easiest of lives.
I'd like to be a weak, boring housewife. Because then it would involve more acting. It would be challenging to do something like that.
Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know automatically.
Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.
As much as I liked acting for its playfulness and the reward of hearing big laughs wash over you on a stage, I always felt I should do something that I could control.
If one... struggles for what is beyond the most proper, doing not in accordance with one's natural ability, acting not with one's genuine feeling, one will surely get into trouble.
Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.
I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can.
To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.
But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.
There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
I feel like with acting it's not like you make a choice - it's kind of in you and you have to do it or you wouldn't be able to survive.
I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
Once I committed to acting, this has been it.
I think acting is a job where you're always unemployed. You're always looking for the next job, so I assume that it's like other jobs that are with that same kind of setup.
I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do.
Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.
The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.
Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.
I won't change and my perspective won't change. I want to continue my life the way I live it, and I'm not going to let anything stop me from doing that. It isn't all about acting. There's a lot more to life than Hollywood.
