Quotes About Acting

I like to do on screen what I'm not in life. In life, I'm much more weak and insecure, and so then you know I like to play characters that are stronger than me.

I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.

I usually played comic lovers or losers - weak, ineffectual men.

Only a good actor has an edge over a weak actor. A hardworking actor has an edge over a lazy actor. Nationality has nothing to do with it.

There is no point in performing in a film with a weak subject.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

I don't have to pitch movies. I'm no good at it!

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial.

I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set. It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement. So I guess acting was a way of finding a home, if that makes sense.

The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

Acting is all about creative ideas and sharing, so the more places those ideas come from, the better.

I've definitely taken more family-friendly roles. Honestly, sometimes the edgier acting roles are not age-appropriate for kids but I have taken more projects that I feel have a great message or my kids can watch because of their age and that were just plain fun.

I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.

They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I did on the show was boring.

Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.

Acting was never planned. I happened to do an ad that was hugely publicized. After that, I got an offer for a South Indian movie and I thought this is destiny calling.

To become an actress was not something I had planned, it just came about through a music video. I just went with that flow.

My stint with 'Ally McBeal' is something I never planned nor expected.

I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.