My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.
Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.
Ever since I was a very little girl, I've dreamed of acting.
Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.