The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
The foundation for film acting is stage acting.
Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
This acting was very hard work.
Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.
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.
People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.