I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.
I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.
I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.
I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.