I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.
I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'
I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.
I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.
I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
When we went to see the first rough cuts of 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence,' I fell to the floor because my acting was so bad. I wrote music to compensate for my bad acting.
Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.
Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.
Especially when it comes to something like the awards, I find it kind of baffling that 'True Blood' has been snubbed so many times given the incredible range of acting they have on there; I mean, incredible storytelling and the incredible production values.
Emoting songs onscreen comes naturally to me since we do emote in the studio behind the mike as well. But acting in a full-length Bollywood film is a completely different ball game.
My first acting gig was a skit for Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show.' It was this Barbie commercial where I got to pour mud all over Barbie dolls and watch the heads pop off. It was so exciting, a lot of fun.
My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.
My father, he really encouraged me to really get into acting. He loved it so much, and he taught all the basics.
I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.
Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.
I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.
The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
Ingrid Bergman made an enormous impression on me. I couldn't imagine where that kind of acting talent came from.