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The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.