I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise and expedient under certain circumstances might be eminently unwise and impolitic under different circumstances. To persist in acting in the same way under circumstances essentially different would be folly and obstinacy, and not consistency.
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'
President Obama and a small team of senior national security officials were in the unusual position of acting as al-Awlaki's jury, judges, and de facto executioners.
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.
From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution.
I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
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.
From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.
Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
