Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they’re invincible and that they’re going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit...

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I’m acting.

Acting’s not about nose jobs and liposuction. It’s about being truthful to what you’re doing.

Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.

For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

The thing is’, (Rufus) Stone said, ‘that if you don’t believe that you are an old man, or a woman, or a tramp, then how can you expect anyone else to believe you? Looking the...

A clown needn’t be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he’s in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they’re just being ordinary men, they’ve got quite...

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

I’m not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there’s another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you’re dressing up and deciding...

DENIAL OF EMOTIONSOur culture does not handle emotions well. We like folks to be happy and fine. We learn rituals of acting happy and fine at an early age. I can remember many times telling...

You can get a bit world-weary in this job, and ‘The Passion’ reminded me of what a fantastic job acting is and how lucky I am to be doing it.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.

On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and...

If you’re dealing with personal kind of acting, you’re not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that’s where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like...

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what’s beneath the word.

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don’t, don’t. There are no other choices.

Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.

Acting doesn’t suffice.

an imitation of human behavior that is both emotionally natural and mechanically precise enough as to elicit tears or laughter from humans.