Quotes About Acting

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

Playing a sadhu is not easy at all.

The dream would be to work with my two favorite actors, Daniel Day Lewis and Cate Blanchett. Or playing Joaquin Phoenix's brother in a film. Basically anything where I get to act opposite actors like these; ones who bring a certain caliber to their work and literally morph into the character they are playing.

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue.

I actually enjoy playing monsters and that kind of thing.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity. If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.

I did a little film called 'Nina,' a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.

I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.

Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

During the fourth year of college, I heard about auditions for a musical for which I got chosen. There after, I continued acting in plays and improved.

I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.