When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.
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Acting is like a game of tennis. The better your opponent, the better you're going to play.
Good acting is consistency of performance.
Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.
Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.
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.
That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.
The weird thing about acting is you're the most competent when you're at your best, but you have to be validated.
There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.
When I'm onstage, I'm acting.
When you're acting, it's all about you and the person in front of you, and I think in life we forget to apply the same technique, and we get caught up in the panic of what we're trying to do - how overwhelmingly daunting the task of trying to become an actor is.
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