Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.
It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.
Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.
I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage or, in my case, also on screen, you have to be true.
Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.
I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.
There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.
I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.
There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.
British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.
After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.
Long time ago, I was going to be a New York cop, then got involved with this girl who was into acting, then got bit by the acting bug myself.
Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting. Not many, mind you - but politicians give you something to look down on from time to time.
The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.
