There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
Acting requires emotional flexibility and demands, and directing is more cerebral and managerial and a tactical kind of thing.
Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
If I'm acting at all, it's going to be under Marvel contract, or I'm going to be directing. I can't see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I'm contractually obligated to do.
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
When I had Mason, I was really ready to leave the business of acting, but still wanted to do work that I could control.
I wish I could say I had this master plan for a career, but I always thought acting was something I'd just do until I had a hit record.
If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely.
I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.
I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.
I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.
Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime.
Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
I haven't modelled since I was 12 - that was a one-time thing, and I did it as a kid to make a little money to save up for university. Acting is my first love as well as writing and eventually producing and directing.
Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about.
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.
