Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].
Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.
Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
I could live without acting. . . . Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was.
Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.
Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.
BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.
I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
I feel like with acting it's not like you make a choice - it's kind of in you and you have to do it or you wouldn't be able to survive.
The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.
It's always better just to do work that you're really proud of and work that you enjoy because really all you have are the choices you make and that's it and who knows after that. I think that's what I love in acting.
I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.
I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke. An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
When you're shooting at 9 A. M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.
Faith is acting like God is telling the truth.
Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.