I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.
But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.
I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.
I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.
Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.
Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.
Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.
All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.
If you like quick put-downs and aggressive interactions with the audience, you will probably not enjoy the rambles of an unusual character act making jokes about cats for an hour.
I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.
Sometimes the greatest act of love is to walk away, so that the other person can find their true self and direction again.
Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.
