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I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
I have amazing parents and some really great friends that would kick my butt if I ever started acting different.
If I wasn't acting, I would probably be working with children. I was a camp counselor growing up and I loved it.
I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I'd like to try my hand at directing.
I love being a human being, my time and experience here has become even more treasured since I turned to acting.
I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.
Larry the Cable Guy has everything: sleeveless shirts, stupid catchphrases. He's Mr. T without the acting chops.
The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.
That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.
Yeah, acting is very difficult. As much as I love it, and the challenge of it, I'm so often just terrified by it.
I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.
In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.
Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.
To give a good interview, I often found it's a bit like acting, except it's yourself, so you have to be yourself.
I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
Any acting roles will be few and far between until my kids are older and by then, who knows what I'll want to do?
We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.
Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.
I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.
And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.
From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!
Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.
I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.
You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.
One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'
I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'
Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.
Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be ok.
From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.
I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.
The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.
Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.
Just concentrate on thinking and living and acting in harmony with God's laws and inspiring others to do likewise.
A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
I think acting is a gift. I think certain people for some reason just have a gift that they were meant to perform.
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.