There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part.
When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?
Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
I've loved acting and dancing since I was a kid. Before anyone thought I was pretty or before I had a voluptuous figure, that was what I was going to do.
The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself.
Acting is one of those things that anybody can do because no one can learn it, but only a few people can really do because it's nothing you can learn.
I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.
Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.
If my mum thinks I'm acting like a diva she'll soon tell me off... She'll cut me down to size!
I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.
With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.
I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.
Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.
I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting.
