Please don’t ask which I enjoy more – acting or hosting – because I love them equally.

I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, ‘I might be a star.’

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that’s a reflection of another character.

If you can’t take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.

On having a backup plan: “Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream – I love writing, acting, and psychiatry – there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my...

I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How...

Every director should take an acting class.

Whether it’s acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

Michael Caine should have the last word on the reviews: ‘What about those reviews then?”I don’t read them.”Don’t read them? You wrote them didn’t you?

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.

Acting in ‘Command & Conquer 3’ called for me to interact with the player and to look directly into the camera, which is a big no no when filming for TV or film.

The ultimate goal is to change Syria’s behaviour on a variety of issues – on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most...

…as an actor there`s nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It`s so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.

The time to act is now! Somebody go get the Director.

As an actress, or actr-ish, I’m jealous of everyone, regardless of gender or age. Sometimes parents will ask me how they go about getting their kids into acting, and my first thought is never, Oh,...

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

It’s really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don’t have as much responsibility when you’re acting, but you have more fun. But then you miss having that responsibility,...

We don’t have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we’re presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled...

I’m getting positive feedback for my acting so we’ll see if any other interesting parts come up.

When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.

Acting is the work of two people – it’s only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to...

You can’t have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can’t have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you...

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it’s there at all right now. It’s all entertainment.

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn’t want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn’t think I would stop acting,...

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There’s something great about it as an actor. You have to go to places you’d normally never go and be put in situations you would never...

I sort of make believe. That’s why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

I’m not that good of an actor to fake something like that.

Periodically over the years I’ve always taken periods of time away from acting.

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

I like writing, and I enjoy it. It’s painful. You can’t get around the pain of writing. I’m still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do...

I know my career is going badly because I’m being quoted correctly.

Love art in yourself, not yourself in art.

To be too knowing is a downfall.

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I’ve never done before.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

I think what makes a good actor’s director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

I think because of my background – I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting – I’ve never had a game plan for my career because I got into it...

At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman’s wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I dressed the part. Denial and rationalization were two of my most effective tools...

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

That’s what I love most about writers–they’re such lousy actors.