I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is deep and I am complicated.
I'm not acting, but I am acting.
And it [acting] was exciting to me. And scary.
Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.
Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes.
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company
The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15.
I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.
I went to theater school in France, and when I finished I thought I would never go back to acting again. I don't want to be acting in theater. It's not for me. I'm sick of all this theater world, all these actors, and all that.
Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.
It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.
Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.
Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.
The easiest thing to do is to rag on the media, because it isn't doing a very good job right now. It is so much easier to profit from celebrating the worst aspects of ourselves. Acting strikes me as the antithesis of that. We can examine the worst aspects of ourselves, but we don't have to celebrate them.
When you write a character and their dialogue, you can't help imagining how you would be acting if you were them. You kind of have to relate to all of them. It's the most personal thing I've ever done.
When you're a drama student, I think the most you hope for is to make a living out of acting.
I came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.
I don't have a formula. Every time an actor wants me to hold their hand, I hold their hand. If they say, "Stay," I say "Okay, respect." You know? "I'm right over here." A kid, if I need to give a line-reading, I'll start acting out the part for the kid and just mimic the kid. You know? Whatever it takes.
I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.
Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.
I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.
My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage.
Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.
I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
