if people do not understand you outrightly, do not worry; understand people outrightly and act with wisdom, courage and understanding
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.
I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.
Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.
When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.
I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I'm not doing any generic 'Southern acting.'
If one day someone came up to me and was like, 'Look, you're never going to act again,' I don't know what I would do.
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.
Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
