Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.
Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.
The repeated action of working and playing acts like a trowel that uncovers a hidden structure under the earth. It is an action that deepens and develops.
Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?
That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.
Acting, it's very different. It's obviously very different and a lot more difficult than the modeling world I came from.
Have a good looking is not worthy if you don't act just like your appearances.
I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.
I've always enjoyed acting. When we were younger, my sisters and I would put on plays for our parents.
Some of my biggest complaints about acting in television were that I was always wearing a tight dress or pencil skirt, and I was always wearing heels.
Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
Half of acting is you're very intimidated, overcoming your fears, letting yourself be vulnerable in front of people and that sort of stuff.
The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.
The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.
I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.
I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.
There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.
