I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.
I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.
I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.
I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I cant explain it.
When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.
I’d like to. Problem is, I’m not stupid. ” “You act stupid. ” “Right. Thanks for that. For your information, there’s a difference between acting stupid and being stupid. ” “It’s a fine line, but someone has to draw it.
Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.
Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.
The worst acting is about imitation.
In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.
Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.
Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.
There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.
I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.
You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.
Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
