I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.'
I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
Hope is a flicker, a candle flame kept burning by the simple act of breathing.
Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.
I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.
You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
A lot of people don't know this, but when 'Dancing with the Stars' first asked me to be on the show, I said no, because I wanted to act and to be taken seriously.
Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.
If all the people who were called "crazy" started acting "normal", we'd probably still be living in caves.
Ohio's doing what it can do, but I wish they'd get their act together in Washington.
Whoopi and I have been friends ever since she claimed she couldn't sing on the set of Sister Act.
The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.
In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.
I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.
I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.
