I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.
Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.
British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are so used to the angle from which the Americans, and certainly the young guys from L.A., are coming at it, that I think it's interesting for them to find these English actors who maybe approach acting from a different place.
I've been doing theatre for years, but film acting has broadened my horizon.
Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting because it's such a pure form of emotional expression.
I've done a couple of Broadway shows and sang before I did any acting.
Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.
Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.
For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.
I don't do so much acting work now, as there aren't the parts except for 'Tango'. So if I didn't have the cabaret work, I don't know what I would be doing.
I have an acting crush on Gene Hackman; I have an acting crush on Tommy Lee Jones. Gary Cooper. Jimmy Cagney. Michael Gambon. Simon Russell Beale.
I got my B.F.A. at Wayne State. Moved to L.A. and got my M.F.A. from Cal Arts in acting and just worked hard.
Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously against their own interests.
Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.
I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.
My job stays the same, whether we're acting by candlelight, against a green screen, or on a stage somewhere. Which is just as well, because I really couldn't do anything else.
