I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him.
Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back.
If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.
Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.
People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!
The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.
I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet.
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
For me, acting is doing.
I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.
I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.