Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.
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.
I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.
The foundation for film acting is stage acting.
I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I cant explain it.
I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.
I've been asked repeatedly what the 'key' to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep the audience awake.
The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.
Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you. '
If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.
Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.
I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing. Acting didn't come up until much later, probably about 16 or 17. I thought, "Oh, I quite like this. "
Part of what makes me love acting so much is, I love the mystery of the universe and the human experience, and storytelling is a great way to perform that, and that is always inspiring to me.