When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different PEOPLE ACTING in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of SUCCESS. So, it's a difficult TASK.

'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method ACTING and, INDEED, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and DE Niro. But it's not my CUP of TEA.

I'm an entertainer, so in WHATEVER form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, WHEREAS with acting you have to COMPROMISE a lot.

My parents' divorce left me with a LOT of SADNESS and pain and ACTING, and especially humour, was my WAY of dealing with all that.

It's all choreographed; it's a ROUTINE. So I told EVERYONE I really wanted to try fighting in action films. I had no STUNT EXPERIENCE, but I had the dance background, and I was very agile and coordinated. And the best thing about being a newcomer to acting is you can afford to try new THINGS.

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would THINK LONG and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been INVOLVED in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the AGENCY when they did it.

Acting is my true love. I WOULD like to have been a SERIOUS actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers.

The only time I commit to CONSPIRACY theories is when SOMETHING WAY retarded HAPPENS. Like Lee Harvey Oswald ACTING alone.

In 1987, when I was 19, I was STUDYING musical theater at BOSTON's Emerson College. My SISTER, Tricia LEIGH, told me about a summer acting retreat in ITALY. Mom paid, so off we went.

Measures of policy are necessarily CONTROLLED by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise and expedient under CERTAIN circumstances might be eminently unwise and impolitic under different circumstances. To persist in acting in the same WAY under circumstances essentially different would be FOLLY and obstinacy, and not consistency.

Well, ACTING itself is a form of rebellion, always. GETTING up there in front of people, telling stories - you're KIND of going against the grain to BEGIN with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why ELSE would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe ACTING should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind MAN, I don't go around blindfolded for DAYS. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I LIKE to just make it up as I go along.

When we say GENDER is performed, we usually MEAN that we've taken on a ROLE or we're acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.

I LOVE finding things. I love digging around in the dirt. It's PART of my Virgo. It's LIKE acting, REALLY. You're always searching around for something and finding little hidden treasures.