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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for acting.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

Acting is the way I make my living.

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.

Acting is playing, and it is like being a big kid. Yeah, it's great. You get paid.

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.