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It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

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.

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

I started acting professionally at age 19.

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

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.