An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.
I love theater - it's where every actor should begin, the core of acting. But I feel that there's something about film that's captivating; it takes you to another , and you get to really be so connected with it.
My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.
Acting is no longer a taboo. The stigma has gone because people have realised that it's a perfectly valid career choice.
I studied acting at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh because I figured a good comedian certainly could act.
Good acting is really excellent carpentry.
I do find acting cathartic.
Very few ideas are better than Catherine O'Hara's ideas when it comes to acting.
I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.
The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.
Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.
A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.
Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.
Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.
Working with Mrs. Clarke at The Gryphon School is when I really began to think of acting as a potential career.
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.
I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences.
I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.
I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.
