A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.
I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.
Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.
Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.
The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.
Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?
I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.
Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me.