Pastoral Resources

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

The three of us acting was truly one of the best experiences I've ever had. I really look forward to the days when all three of us shoot together, because the sparks really fly.

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.