My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.
Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.
One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community.
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.
I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.
Cats aren't cooperative in the same way that other animals are. You can train a dog to act, but you can't train a cat in the same way.
There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.
You know how when you read a book and it becomes a movie, and it's different than you pictured? In some ways, acting is a lot like that.
If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.
I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.
Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.
Globally, democracies have also acted in ways that suggest an outright renunciation of their principles at home.
The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.
In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.
Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.
I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.
I did a modeling gig for Burberry once, and it was a great experience, but no I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.
Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.
