I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
I recommend doing some sort of acting class, something that can eventually get you in front of an agent or a manager, and practice is very important.
Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.
I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
I don't think it's any secret I've never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.
I have always enjoyed performing, but I think when I was in the fifth grade was when I discovered that I really loved acting.
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.
When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby.
You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.
Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.
Listening; our propensity to complicate this effortless act is only matched by our ability to relentlessly obscure the obvious.
The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.
One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.
