I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor financially, emotionally, egotistically.

I moved to New York – I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like ‘8 Mile.’ I used to rap battle.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

Karl Marx: “Religion is the opiate of the masses.”Carrie Fisher: “I did masses of opiates religiously.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

When I’m not acting, I’m writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

I also want to try acting – give it a shot – maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a...

I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn’t want to be a lawyer. I...

I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant...

Acting has been very useful to me.

Physicality is the basis of performance.

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn’t start pursuing acting until I was 17.

I will always be an actress. I couldn’t see myself without acting. But I’d love to direct and keep writing. I don’t think one has to be in place of the other.

Acting is a life of rejection.

[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

Acting with creatures that aren’t there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.

I couldn’t get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can’t do in real life. It allows you to understand more than just what life provides you.

My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher...

The better the acting is, the harder it is to see what the process is.

The text is your greatest enemy.

I think I’m an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

Never give all the heart, for loveWill hardly seem worth thinking ofTo passionate women if it seemCertain, and they never dreamThat it fades out from kiss to kiss;For everything that’s lovely isBut a brief, dreamy,...

Maybe subconsciously I’ve kept activism separate from acting because it’s important to me in a more profound way.

Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

It’s a big spooky place when you’re in it alone. It’s like you can hear all the whispers of all the voices of all the actors who ever played here. Kind of creepy. Like a...

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

I do find acting cathartic.

People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like, `What? You`re married?` Strange reaction to have. Proves what people`s ideas about marriage are. `We`re having a baby.` `What?` As if it`s the end of the world....

After years of immaturity, I finally have my act together. As far as acting, it’s very slapstick.

It’s got to do with putting yourself in other people’s shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

Growing up, I wasn’t sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

Voice acting is very creative, especially ‘Star Wars’ voice acting, because there’s so much you have to imagine.

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn’t done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try...

I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens of some inner undying thing in people that drives them to act as they do...

Only then, when no situation or character is obviously good or evil, is it truly interesting to act.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I always say if you’ve seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there’s just not enough time. You don’t have any preparation.

If you’re used to being a maverick, then people don’t get surprised when you start acting strangely.

Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say ‘You did so much better than I thought you would.’ So there’s an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.

I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I’m willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I...

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page....

It was a relief to inhabit someone else’s life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character’s problems would be resolved....

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I’ll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I’ll be able to give myself enough...

I think when you’re acting, you usually don’t have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you’re saying.

I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I’ve only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it’s still a work in progress.