But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman.
I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!
I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.
Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.
It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in acting. Of course, I was a little bit interested in it; I'm sure that's part of the reason I moved to L.A. even though I never admitted it to myself.
One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.
I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.
I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.
Acting is always a challenge.