I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.
When you get a role, you completely lose yourself in it. That's one of the great things about acting - letting yourself go.
That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.
If you told me tomorrow that I couldn't act anymore, it wouldn't bother me. I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life.
I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one's thoughts into actions the most difficult thing in the world.
I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.
There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.
The most genuine acts of kindness are done without fanfare and when no one is looking.
I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.
I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
