All the characters ever written are already inside you. It’s just a matter of accessing them and bringing them forward. And having no fear of the dark side.

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else’s writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn’t. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

Acting on our interests refines our understanding of what we are good at and what we value. The experiences we have along the way sometimes introduce us to new values that enhance and enlarge our...

I’m a young actor and I haven’t learned everything there is about acting.

I don’t think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn’t enough for me.

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

Why would you want to act, anyway?” was Seth’s take on the subject. “Stand there and say other people’s words, let everybody else tell you what to do… Actors are just beautiful puppets.

I’m a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn’t know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair....

I couldn’t be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don’t miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

I didn’t even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it.

There’s a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

Why is an actor’s unintentional giggling called a ‘corpse’? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he’s very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up...

Maybe I can’t act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what’s good for me.

I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I’m acting, I feel great. It’s not to be famous.

I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world’s a stage and I’m a lousy actor!

Challenge anything that could step into your plans with the intention of acting as a resistance towards your fulfillment.

I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

It’s a living, breathing thing, acting.

In my experience it’s not essential to get on with the person that you’re acting opposite.

British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That’s speaking very generally.

Well anything thats interesting in a film, or in a character (all your passion, your sex, your anger, your rage, all that) comes from that part of you that you want to hide and push...

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I’m not even sure is important to me.

I’ve got to see my movie to see how I’m acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

I thought I’d be a journalist, and only pursued acting intermittently while studying. My very first interview as a journalist was with David Usher of Moist, and he called the magazine the next day to...

It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a...

We dress the way we think.

My basic profession is as an actor, and I have learnt much about life through working as an actor. Working as an actor is really a spiritual profession, since it means to create life on...

What I like is the acting itself. But I’m a lousy celebrity. I’m not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a...

…teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

I’ve been chasing my music dream for a very long time and the acting dream just came up. But there are musical things I want to show the world, so that’s my next step.

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I do tend to like movies that challenge me professionally. That’s mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two or five actors, and it’s all about the acting and not the camera.

I didn’t get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who’ve inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.

If my life were still a movie, this is the part that would end up on the cutting room floor. We were all just fill-ins for a long-running soap opera. The actors changed, but the...

I’ll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it’d probably be singing or dancing – if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn’t until I began...

It was jarring to be berated for ‘acting white’ when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was also chubby, into boys who weren’t into me, and tried too...

We made love like two shy people who acted like we’ve never acted in front of a camera before. Aside from the lead actor, I was also the producer, director, cameraman, and financier.

I had a dream about you. We were actors in a horror movie and I was hunting you down with a knife. When I finally cornered you the director yelled “Cut”…. What? I can’t be...

[To actor Strother Martin] You know, as character actors we play all kinds of sex psychos, nuts, creeps, perverts, and weirdos. And we laugh it off, saying what the hell it’s just a character. But...

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

It’s good to learn early that every show is a family—complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness…

For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions – to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn’t...

It’s interesting to play a role where you don’t really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you’re not acting.

Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf...

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.