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.

Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean, we have to be larger than life. Worse, I’ve seen actors acting off the sets, too.

…actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other “set” thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.

I’ve never been in the music industry, only acting.

If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It’s more work and more good work. That’s it. People will have their opinion regardless.

I’m not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

There are no emergency meetings, no headlines, no breaking news. No one is acting as if we were in a crisis. Even most climate scientists or green politicians keep on flying around the world, eating...

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

I still don’t really think about acting that much. I just do it.

Over the years, I played with a couple of spectacular guitar players, and playing with them has made me play better than I knew how to play. I hope the same thing is true with...

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn’t do another film for two to three years, and I don’t blame it on anybody...

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive...

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became ‘Timothy Green.’

When you are starting to fall in love with someone you want to know everything there is to know about them; you want to understand their world and be accepted into it. It is the...

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns,...

I wish to Heaven I was married,” she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. “I’m tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I’m tired of acting...

Good acting is consistency of performance.

Hollywood is something imagined… acting is something crafted.

I was living in Florida working as a model and got my first acting job there in the movie ‘Wild Things.’ I thought it was sort of cool and decided to do some training.

In my acting, I have tried to do this – to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

By the time I grew up, acting just seemed like something I’d already done. I had absolutely no interest in it, even though some people thought it would be my calling.

You will fail. That’s great. Here’s a secret for you – that’s the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will...