When I’m not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.

I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, ‘Okay, I’ll try it.’

I’ve been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean, we have to be larger than life. Worse, I’ve seen actors acting off the sets, too.

…actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other “set” thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.

I’ve never been in the music industry, only acting.

If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It’s more work and more good work. That’s it. People will have their opinion regardless.

I’m not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

There are no emergency meetings, no headlines, no breaking news. No one is acting as if we were in a crisis. Even most climate scientists or green politicians keep on flying around the world, eating...

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

I still don’t really think about acting that much. I just do it.

Over the years, I played with a couple of spectacular guitar players, and playing with them has made me play better than I knew how to play. I hope the same thing is true with...

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn’t do another film for two to three years, and I don’t blame it on anybody...

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive...

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became ‘Timothy Green.’

When you are starting to fall in love with someone you want to know everything there is to know about them; you want to understand their world and be accepted into it. It is the...

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns,...

I wish to Heaven I was married,” she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. “I’m tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I’m tired of acting...

Good acting is consistency of performance.

Hollywood is something imagined… acting is something crafted.

I was living in Florida working as a model and got my first acting job there in the movie ‘Wild Things.’ I thought it was sort of cool and decided to do some training.

In my acting, I have tried to do this – to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

By the time I grew up, acting just seemed like something I’d already done. I had absolutely no interest in it, even though some people thought it would be my calling.

You will fail. That’s great. Here’s a secret for you – that’s the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will...

You’ve got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You’ll manage your...

When strangers start acting like neighbors… communities are reinvigorated.

I was playing Rasputin and what was motivating him was crumpet really, and I was extremely keen on crumpet so I was really rather good as Rasputin. And my next catastrophic failure was Macbeth, who...

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don’t go.

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.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film...

Anyway, that’s why you do it. Not to be famous, just to be good. To do good work. Find the thing you really love doing, and do it to the best of your ability.

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the...

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that’s fine, but they should do something else first, so they’ve got something to fall back on. It doesn’t work...

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

The thing that attracted me to acting the most was I always felt quite unsure or insecure as a kid, and for some reason, when I got to perform these lines and characters, I felt...

But ‘Hey Dude’ was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing...

All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.

Shortly after I started working as a doctor, I decided to listen to the voice inside me before it was too late. It was now or never, so I decided to explore acting.

The hard part for me was being an Olympic gold medalist and having that persona; you don’t see too many Olympic gold medalists go into acting. It’s actually even more difficult. You’re not taken very...

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

I know what it’s like to have a dream. I know what it’s like to roll the dice and say, ‘I’m going to go after this thing,’ and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting...

I’ve always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.

By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don’t ordinarily call upon in your personal life.

Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.

I started acting pretty young, so I haven’t had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.