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Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.

I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

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.

I don't think I'm proud of anything in 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 actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

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.

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.

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

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.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

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.

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 never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

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 do find acting cathartic.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.