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A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

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.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I've worked with.

Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.