I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.
I have only been acting since I was about eighteen. I couldn't imagine doing anything else. I don't think there is anything else I could do.
One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it.
I started acting when I was 5, and it was always a part of my life. My life and acting weren't separate things; they were always one.
There are definitely things about acting that have helped me growing up and finding myself, but there are also things that make it a bit more difficult. I guess I do allow myself to explore more when I know that, at the end of the day, if I really wanted to, I could just play a different person all day and be fine with that.
I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].
I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
Actors are always weird about acting with their spouse or their boyfriend or girlfriend, but more because they think audiences will find it boring.
I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.
Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.
I kind of dwindled into acting.
Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.
I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.
I really like acting in English.
My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
Acting is something I love.
Acting doesn't suffice.
Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.
Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing.
To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.
I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which everybody says you shouldn't do. It makes you feel like you're not acting, as soon as you have someone who's providing stuff to react to.
I don't really like watching my stuff. It makes me feel sick. You imagine you look a certain way in your head, and when it looks even the slightest bit different from what you imagine, you go, 'Rubbish!'
I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!
I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature.
I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre.
