I’d always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don’t have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

I don’t get acting jobs because of my looks.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting – and now I can.

The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

I’m really shy with my acting when it’s off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he’s doing very little wrong.

There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.

Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it’s not really like anything else because you are only providing a portion of the performance. That’s very inspiring and it forces you...

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

There is no right in acting.

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

When I’m playing a character, I am never allowed to explicitly state the the takeaway message of the scenes I’m performing—after all, part of the dramatic conflict is that the person I’m portraying doesn’t really...

Death is just the last scene of the last act.

Maybe the trick is for me to always be in some sort of disguise, to always be dressed to play someone else. Only then can I really appreciate myself.

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am...

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I’d be acting in movies.

It’s about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you’ve done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only...

You’ll begin to act when you can forget your technique – when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

When I first broke into the acting industry, I taught spinning classes to support myself.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you...

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It’s taken me a long time.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.