I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it..

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York..

I identify myself as a stand-up first. Even though lately there's been an explosion of acting on my schedule..

By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act..

Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince..

I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what's possible..

With acting, I started as a kid and it was my safe space and the place where I felt the most free to be all of myself. What gets explored in our show….

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character..

I always have to pretend I'm somebody else to give the best performance. It kind of feels like I'm acting; it's definitely an exaggerated version of ….

It's easy to direct while acting - there's one less person to argue with..

I remember Julianne Moore talking about acting and she said, "I'm just looking for truth. When people watch, they're not looking to see me. They're l….

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture..

I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days whe….

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special..

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patie….

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting..

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery..

I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what I do. But I still feel like a bit o….

Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way….

I went to acting school for like a year and ended up doing voiceovers and stuff. I could have done a lot more with it but at the time I really wasn't….

I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting..