I am a huge fan of movies. It is my favorite thing during downtime. I get completely lost in films. I find them transformative, even one that seems l….

Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO..

I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no o….

I think that's really the allure of acting for me. I really want to connect with people..

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate..

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect f….

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about..

In any of the big acting cities, there are breakdowns that the casting directors put together for the projects that they're working on and then they ….

Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing..

The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lo….

The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do s….

I took an acting class for 10 seconds before I played a lead in a student movie. I showed the film to an agent who said he would send me on interview….

Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to….

I love playing other people's work. I love acting..

The Worst part of acting like a jerk isn't when you're doing it. Its when you realize you were..

Any work I do I think is important...like in acting there are no small parts- only small actors..

I find that you can use an acting technique when the thing isn't working, not that you make the technique the end result of your work. You use the te….

In acting, you're only responsible for your part. When you're directing, the load is on your shoulders, so you have to feel a strong connection to th….

I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you w….

Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finall….

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by ….