I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can’t remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.
There is no right in acting.
When I began acting, my biggest fear was whether the audience will appreciate the kind of films I do.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Whether it’s music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.
You’ve got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You’ll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you’re trying to achieve in your life.
I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
One day, my twin sister Sidra and I pranked Tyler Perry on the set of ‘For Better or Worse.’ I made her dress up as me and do a scene as if she were my character Angela. Tyler says, ‘Action!’ and my sister starts acting. It was horrible.
Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
I think acting is something that is within you. It’s a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.
But acting is very much a profession that is you’re hot one moment and not the next – and that is totally cool. I think that’s what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it – is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.
The better the actor I am acting with, the better my performance gets.
Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
If acting doesn’t work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I’m a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.
I love both acting and casting, and the idea will be to pursue both.
My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her – yes, put it down to my mother.
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
I love experimenting and doing new things in life, and if things fall into place, I’m ready to take up acting, too.
Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I’m very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I’ve been dancing since I was a little kid.
I’d always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, ‘You know, you’ll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,’ and that kinda sold it.
I want to open businesses, invest in different things, and put more time into modeling and acting.
All the time that I’m acting with an animated character, I’m looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There’s no real environment, just this electric green that’s blaring into your brain.
When it comes to social consequences, they’ve got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it’s a difficult task.
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
The secret to acting is don’t act. Be you, with add-ons.
My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that’s how I began studying.
I’ve always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it’s like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That’s the actor’s craft – using yourself to create a character.
The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.
I love acting because it’s a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man’s revenge.
Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that’s better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
I do really like my co-stars when I’m acting. As a person, as a partner, and as something beyond that.
Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It’s not why I started acting. I didn’t get into acting to be written about. It kind of just happened – so I accept that it’s my life.
I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn’t be acting like Don Juan. I should have been contrite – and apologized for exposing her to the angry pimple.
