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I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.

It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.

The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.

I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

Acting is actually private.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.

A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting.

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.