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Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

To be honest, there are so many things I learned in acting school beyond the method; it was a safe place to practice. So acting school was about exercising that acting muscle and doing it every single day - and having people tell you that you're bad every single day! Which pushes you to work even harder.

Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.

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.

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.