Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.
You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.
I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.
Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.
Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.
Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.
With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.
Making a transition to the adult acting industry was pretty smooth for me, and I had a great balance and a great opportunity not to do just children shows.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.
When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.
It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'
I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.
It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would disagree, but they could be social to each other. There were times during the year that we acted together in the good of the country.
People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.
You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
My fundamental interests are to preserve the good name and standing of this Australian Labor Party and to act in the national interest on behalf of the Australian Government.
