At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?
Stephen Rea
That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.
I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.
Acting is way of making yourself exist.
I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your... →
We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of... →
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Nancy Reagan
I went to L.A. and got an acting coach for one day. Then I went in to audition and I smashed it. You have to take risks, and one thing I know about... →
Spoken Reasons
I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and... →
Robert Redford
Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them.... →
Eddie Redmayne