Acting is the work of two people – it’s only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to...

You can’t have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can’t have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you...

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it’s there at all right now. It’s all entertainment.

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn’t want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn’t think I would stop acting,...

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There’s something great about it as an actor. You have to go to places you’d normally never go and be put in situations you would never...

I sort of make believe. That’s why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

I’m not that good of an actor to fake something like that.

Periodically over the years I’ve always taken periods of time away from acting.

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

I like writing, and I enjoy it. It’s painful. You can’t get around the pain of writing. I’m still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do...

I know my career is going badly because I’m being quoted correctly.

Love art in yourself, not yourself in art.

To be too knowing is a downfall.

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I’ve never done before.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

I think what makes a good actor’s director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

I think because of my background – I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting – I’ve never had a game plan for my career because I got into it...

At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman’s wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I dressed the part. Denial and rationalization were two of my most effective tools...

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

That’s what I love most about writers–they’re such lousy actors.

Have a good looking is not worthy if you don’t act just like your appearances.

Didn’t they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

I don’t think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn’t care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my...

I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

If you are willing to expose your heart…being publicly private, you just may do something…

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.

I said, “I don’t think I can give you that kind of emotion.” And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, “Ingrid, fake it!” Well, that was the best advice I’ve had in my whole life,...

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.