Actions lie louder than words.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by...

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

We're actors - we're the opposite of people.

You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In...

When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

Acting like someone you're not is exactly what it takes to realize you're capable of more than you ever knew.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part.

There's a rule in acting called, "Don't play the result." If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play...

Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill,...

While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense...

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it...

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.