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 terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed..

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just….

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

No one will ever touch Elvis.

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of….

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences..

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movi….

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore..

My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young age - was that I was tired of se….

I am not too technical in my acting, and I feel when I get too technical it becomes unbelievable..

...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people..

Mads Mikkelsen’s acting is very subtle, precise, nuanced, so he brings something completely different to the character. If you compare Mads’ Hannibal….

Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before..

There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine.….

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around….

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five..

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting..

TV is longer form, and that's sometimes a positive, and sometimes a more challenging thing. As an actor, you want to be able to have your character d….

I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest..

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man..