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.

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.

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...

DENIAL OF EMOTIONSOur culture does not handle emotions well. We like folks to be happy and fine. We learn rituals of acting happy and fine at an early age. I can remember many times telling...

You can get a bit world-weary in this job, and ‘The Passion’ reminded me of what a fantastic job acting is and how lucky I am to be doing it.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.

On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and...

If you’re dealing with personal kind of acting, you’re not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that’s where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like...

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what’s beneath the word.

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don’t, don’t. There are no other choices.

Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.

Acting doesn’t suffice.

an imitation of human behavior that is both emotionally natural and mechanically precise enough as to elicit tears or laughter from humans.

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.

I don’t think I’m proud of anything in acting.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it’s coming to tell you something about you that you’re acting like you don’t know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains. Of course actors regard audiences as...

Now that I think I know what I’m doing, I’m scared. Before this, I just didn’t know any better.

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

Absolutely, ‘Rabbit Hole’ gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.

If I had to start over, I’d pursue photography – probably to the exclusion of acting.

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor – this has been proved several times – and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is...

My acting has always been in the world of comedy, but in my writing, other than writing sketches, I really am drawn to the balance between comedy and drama. I like things that sort of...

As soon as I started acting in England, I got unusual roles. Although I’m 6 foot six, and agents might standardly cast me in tough guy roles or the big guy in the back, I’ve...

I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only...

You know, to an extent, Method acting feels occasionally lazy.