I'm very honored to play one of the women in the movie Volver, and it was special acting with all those other talented actresses. Carmen Maura is a l….

A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting whi….

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater..

That's the one thing that's funny about going from modeling to acting. In modeling, you're supposed to think about what you look like all the time. W….

When you're a drama student, I think the most you hope for is to make a living out of acting..

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, t….

I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of act….

You know the theory of cell irritability? If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original ….

I think the first time I realized I was actually acting was during Felicity. Before that, I was just going along for the ride..

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls..

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical se….

Any day acting is an amazing day..

I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they'd arrest you for crim….

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way..

I'd been doing some light-beer commercials for Budweiser and Coors, and I was doing stand-up comedy. I wanted to get into the acting world, and my ag….

The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, ….

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one..

Property, as a general social institution, well-divided property, having disappeared and Capitalism having taken its place, you cannot reverse the pr….

I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles..

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me..

I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even t….