Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
I did roles that I hated, and there were roles that were detrimental to my acting ability. There were roles that I was always doing that were always the comic relief... it was destroying my soul.
I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.
I grew up in Sydney, Australia, and I started doing acting classes when I was in eighth grade.
Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side.
I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically.
Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.
It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.
I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.
If we don't challenge each other to use our platforms for better than our niches or what our quote-unquote brand is, what are we doing as influencers? If we can't activate our audiences at the times it's important or needed, then what do we have these platforms for?
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.
I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?
My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.
They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.
This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals either are or are not 'doing.'
