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 they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Ph...
I couldn't believe it! I mean, I'd always dreamed of acting on the screen - my previous background was all theater - but I wasn't sure if the opportunity would ever present itself. Not only was this acting for the screen, this was acting in 'The Hung...
Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But whe...
Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done mor...
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
It was difficult for me to feel my feelings, so I just buried them. Then I found that acting was a way for me to get them out. But now that I'm a reasonably sane adult, acting is more about my trying to engage other people: Acting is cathartic for th...
Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.
Architecture is definitely a political act.
All water is holy water.
Every director should take an acting class.
I got a chance to act, and I have to say that acting is extremely fun and vital.
I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.
There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.
The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.
Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.
Think before you act and act on what you believe.
I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.
Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.
