Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.
I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.
I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.
My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was golden but could also be a bit dubious.
I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'
Acting came from growing up in dysfunction. I mean, a lot of great times, but a lot of dysfunction.
In my late teens and early 20s, I worked hard on my roles, but, to be honest, I didn't feel any special commitment to acting.
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.
Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one, so it's good.
As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.
I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
In 2012, Hillary Clinton's State Department, acting through its ambassador, Mari Carmen Aponte, threatened to withhold critical development aid unless El Salvador passed a major privatization law.
In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.
When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.
The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger those who are already vulnerable to accusations by nasty regimes of acting as foreign agents.
I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting.
It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.
