I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting.

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices.

Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Acting is happy agony.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.