We all are actors. The moment we step out of our comfort zones, the moment we are interacting with another, the actor in us comes alive.

There’s a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

I don’t think I’m proud of anything in acting.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it’s coming to tell you something about you that you’re acting like you don’t know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains. Of course actors regard audiences as...

Now that I think I know what I’m doing, I’m scared. Before this, I just didn’t know any better.

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

Absolutely, ‘Rabbit Hole’ gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.

If I had to start over, I’d pursue photography – probably to the exclusion of acting.

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor – this has been proved several times – and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is...

My acting has always been in the world of comedy, but in my writing, other than writing sketches, I really am drawn to the balance between comedy and drama. I like things that sort of...

As soon as I started acting in England, I got unusual roles. Although I’m 6 foot six, and agents might standardly cast me in tough guy roles or the big guy in the back, I’ve...

I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only...

You know, to an extent, Method acting feels occasionally lazy.

Acting is not a mystery. There’s nothing that I know that other actors don’t know. We all act, we’re all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

What’s the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?

I’ve always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

I don’t see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don’t define them separately, so I can’t say one has helped the other, It’s all the same thing. More than anything I love...

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep...

[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I...

For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there’s a burden to acting in a period...

For an actor, if you’re not doing a job, you can’t just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, ‘Well, I really want to try acting while I’m young, and I don’t ever...

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting,...

I’m trying to get an acting gig on ‘CSI’ or something like that, so we’ll see how that works out. I’m a singer, definitely not an actor, so I just follow directions.

In me all affections take place on the surface, but sincerely. I’ve always been an actor, and in earnest. Whenever I’ve loved, I’ve pretended to love, pretending it even to myself.

Acting was always my first passion.

I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and he’s incredibly charismatic, even when he’s not acting. He’s an incredibly hard worker, and he has a very specific system that...

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

As long as I am acting, I will do only Telugu films. I want to take Telugu films to the world. Everyone should talk about our films.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other...

You have to understand your best. Your best isn’t Barrymore’s best or Olivier’s best or my best, but your own. Every person has his norm. And in that norm every person is a star. Olivier...

One must know a bad performance to know a good one. You can’t be middle-of-the-road about it, just as you can’t be middle-of-the-road about life. I mean, you can’t say about Hitler, I can take...

I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there’s no experience that doesn’t make you a better actor.

There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like ‘Down to the Bone,’ you have the opportunity to be of service.

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

Ciss says, ‘People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven’t time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions.

I already have my dream job. Acting was the only thing that ever really kept my attention, and I’m very fortunate that I can have a career doing something I love.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and...

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant…does it get any better than this?

If I were an actor, I’d be so ordinary I could only be an extra. Still, I’d be extraordinary.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

I treated myself to a £700 Chloe bag after one of my first acting jobs. Then my friends pointed out that, for the same money, I could buy a flight to India. So I took...

I’d always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming – and lucrative – that I didn’t pursue it.

…the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.