When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.
I do find acting cathartic.
The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.
I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.
Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously.
When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.
I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.
I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.
I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.