What do you call an electorate that seems prone to acting out irrationally, is full of inchoate rage, and is constantly throwing fits and tantrums? You call it teenaged.
I don't have tremendous physical vitality since I had a neck operation, and I'm more aware than I used to be of the tedium of acting.
Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.
I had to leave my three-year acting course at Guildhall a little early to start filming Chris Nolan's 'Dunkirk.' It was an absolute dream come true.
I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.
I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked about it, and I decided to enroll at the same school. I was 14. I guess you could say I just got lucky.
I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
Acting is a tough business to break into.
With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.
I didn't go to no school for acting. I learned it all by trial and error.
I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.
Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.
I'm tryin' to get some acting credibility, get some other work.
I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.
I was a 2-year-old baby on something, but it's not like I had lines. But I actually had my first lines when I was 4. And then I finished school, and I went to USC for their BFA program in acting.
I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.
Viola Davis, she does have a lot of TV acting jobs, and she's also a very, very accomplished stage actress.
