I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route..

Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can sense the re….

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors..

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out..

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting..

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct..

The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting..

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's….

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life..

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go..

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one..

I make movies for money, exclusively for money..

With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and someti….

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places..

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their….

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own e….

When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore ….

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse..

There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is m….

When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldnt be doing, then I would no….

My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised..