I love acting… I really do. I love crawling into another character’s skin. That’s something that I’ve always, always, always, always wanted.

A friend of my mom’s was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue...

Who you are, how you act and present yourself to others and your deep inner-truths are calling fortune or misfortune into your life right now.

I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

If you can’t get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren’t something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

I see an actress smoking a cigarette in an old Fred McMurray movie. She’s clever and beautiful and manipulative. I feel envy. I suddenly wish I smoked cigarettes and was as clever and beautiful and...

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don’t rely on some bag of acting tricks I’ve amassed over the years.

What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it’s all about life experiences, and I’m very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.

I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, ‘Okay, this is the...

I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn’t reveal your own personal story.

I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.

My first break wasn’t professional – I was in ‘The Sound of Music’ when I was five. I played Gretel, the youngest one, because that was what kind of took off for me in terms...

There we were – demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow...

Strangely, when I was a kid, my first acting job, at 5 years old, was a performance of ‘The Three Little Pigs.’ They cast me as the Big Bad Wolf.

I don’t care if you wear white to your coming-out party and pretend to be a virgin, but you’re gay, Kit. G-A-Y. Gay! So gay, fairies everywhere will weep that your machismo avoided their gaydar...

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become stageworthy.

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn’t plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is...

A moment of truth is very powerful. Instead of smiling to be polite, just frown. Instead of laughing when you are nervous or uncomfortable, just speak your truth. Instead of acting like everything is all...

I’ve been very lucky at what’s happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine – anything from a mutated baddy in a comic...

I always tell younger filmmakers, it’s not just about the acting or the art itself. It’s about how big of an audience watches your film.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my ‘real life,’ which was my acting class on Saturday.

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It’s just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one’s ability to learn something new that...

I am an actress and acting is my passion… period!

I think it’s critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

My plan B, if acting doesn’t work out, is to work with disabled children.

It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.

Acting is what I chose to do. It’s what I feel I need to do.

Everything about video games has changed. The writing, the acting, the visuals, obviously – everything has gone to a new level. And the difference that I see as an actor is that I don’t have...

I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

With a recent birthday, I’ve been acting now for twenty years.

I am only an actress when they say, ‘action’ and I stop being an actress when they say, ‘cut’. I am a normal person outside of acting.

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...