For me really good acting is about subtext.
Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.
I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me
The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career. . . which I've resumed, by the way.
It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.
We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.
I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn’t know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn’t want to do any of the courses.
I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.
The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.
I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.
I still feel like the person who shouldn't be doing this and everyone is acting around me as if I'm a badass all the time. And this still feels like a stretch. I realize this is something that is incredible. I get to do this and I get wonderful teachers to help me and it's amazing.
I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.
I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.
The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.
I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.
We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing.