I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.
The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
So many actors wear wigs nowadays. Besides, if someone is hiring me because of how I wear my hair, I don't want to work with them anyway.
I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day.
I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy.
Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.
It's all about doing work, being creative and staying true to who you are and having fun. That's what us actors are all about.
What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.
I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.
I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back.
There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.
You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.
It's more acceptable for guys to get old and craggy and become wonderful character actors as they get older, but women aren't allowed to get old and craggy in the same way.
My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.
We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.
My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may do.
Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
I'm really too young to go out into the world alone," he thought as he lay down
A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates, Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates.
We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.
