It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

Living in California, everyone learns to adapt their actor or actress within.

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there’s meaning in your life.

I’d never been to acting school, so I never thought I’d get this far.

I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.

Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

I don’t believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage or, in my case, also on screen, you have to be true.

My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won’t get another acting job after ‘Fame’, maybe I’ll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and...

You’ll never really be great unless you aim high.

Thought before word. Never word before thought.

The last time I had a job that wasn’t an acting job was ’88, and I’m quite proud of that.

One play down and 497 to Go!

My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called ‘Love for Sale,’ and that was my first role in any film.

Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work....

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and...

Act as though everything will be perfectly fine — because it will. Life has you and it’s not letting you go.

I don’t do method acting. If I play a farmer, I’m not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That’s a bit too much for me.

Theatres are curious places, magician’s trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and...

If my name were Oscar, I’d want to be an actor and win my namesake award and take back my identity.

People with dissociative disorders are like actors trapped in a variety of roles. They have difficulty integrating their memories, their sense of identity and aspects of their consciousness into a continuous whole. They find many...

But sovereign debt is a wider question not only in Europe but across the globe. While every country is a unique case, I think it’s not an issue of countries acting on their own. We...

Acting truly is a love of mine.

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I’m sure I would have played...

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditioning for stuff I would walk into the room with an Australian accent ,and I would do...

I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we’re really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting...

Part of the process of acting in a film that you’re also directing is really trusting the people around you to capture your vision, which hopefully you have communicated well to them.

I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I’m acting. It’s always, ‘When I say you’ll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?’...

Nevis tas moments ir skaists, kad tu runā, bet tas, kad tu klusē.

Emotions aren’t doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

Acting is my passion, and Chelsea FC is my hobby.

I don’t like to spend a lot of money on haircuts: I’ll sometimes grow my hair and get an acting job and get them to cut it for free. I think for a lady, though,...

What’s it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you’re always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?”Life is a play, isn’t...

YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS.

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it’s a lot of fun.

Darling, don’t be silly, your whole future is ahead of you. All you have to do is go out there and ask for a part- something small and reasonable just to start with. From there,...

When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren’t like – it wasn’t even like...

Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.

They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn’t watch. It’s the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, ‘I love you,’ the next is, ‘Baby, don’t leave me’, the next is, ‘If you leave me I don’t...

And what does he feel?””He feels uneasy. A little afaid. Angry. Oddly, a hint of pride.””Good,” Henry said. “ANd where are you?””Backstage.”Henry shook his head gravely. “THere’s no such thing as backstage. The play begins,...

Acting is all about big hair and funny props… All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I think it’s a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.

Trust the acting.

I don’t usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don’t necessarily think it’s helpful to talk about how I do my job.

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.