When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and...

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant…does it get any better than this?

If I were an actor, I’d be so ordinary I could only be an extra. Still, I’d be extraordinary.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

I treated myself to a £700 Chloe bag after one of my first acting jobs. Then my friends pointed out that, for the same money, I could buy a flight to India. So I took...

I’d always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming – and lucrative – that I didn’t pursue it.

…the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

Second only to a viable approach to acting, the most important thing an actor can find is a creative family. To have a solid core group of people that you take that journey with together...

‘Johnny’ was always a lone wolf when he got on stage. Him against the world, whereas suddenly, when I got into acting, people were relying on me.

Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don’t be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.

I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it’s better...

When I’m not excited, it makes acting very hard for me.

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

Acting is something I love.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

I wasn’t even going to do acting. I don’t know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go into psychology or something like that. Or business. And then some moment of...

Labor believes in sustainability. We believe in acting on climate change, not just talking about it.

I would like to continue acting. But also – if this is a dream world where everything could become true – I’d want to be a ballerina.

It’s important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started acting when I was about nine or 10 years old. My father was a midtown firefighter so I always wanted...

Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone’s going ‘Hey!’ and the next they’re going ‘Who?’. You certainly don’t need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your...

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap...

Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination.

In the movies you get even; in life, diplomacy is best.

If you are looking for something, don’t go sit on the seashore and expect it to come and find you; you must search, search, search with all the stubbornness in you!

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

Realistically speaking, I don’t know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That’s what acting is about.

I’m really very sorry for you all, but it’s an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.

I think fidelity is absolutely important, especially in the acting industry, which is littered with broken relationships because people are away filming for months.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It’s fun. I like being creative, and it’s a creative process.

An actor is just a part of a movie, but director – he is the movie.

I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles...

A lot of people don’t realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you’re not just performing martial arts. You’re not just performing martial arts. You’re actually acting as much as any other...

What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself.

When you’re shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they’re working on through blinders....

I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that’s what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning...

I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it’s 14 hours a day out of the house. You don’t get that time back.

I think acting is a gift.

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