Quotes About Acting

I'm acting for the pleasure of it.

In life, you have to keep certain parts of yourself in check because you want to be a decent human being. But one of the guilty pleasures of acting is that sometimes you get to let a little something out that you don't in life because it's not right.

Ingenue parts are plentiful. And once you get old, they'll start hiring you again for character parts. But the middle years are tough.

I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.

Playing an alien gave me plenty of scope, and I was able to develop it once I became a member of the team.

I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

I have plenty of 'Law & Order' on my resume.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.

Character is plot, and casting is character.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good. It was the first time that I existed inside a fully-functioning self - one that I controlled, that I steered, that I gave life to.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

I love my martial arts and action movies. They give another dimension to the acting world: the emotional plus the physical.

Film, you get to go to other locations and live the culture for a little while. You also form a strong bond with your cast, which is a lot of fun. Plus, you only have to live with the character for a couple months at a time.

I have done 200 plus films in other languages.

I was just 19 years old when I did my first film and had no plan to act, or to become an actor. It was like a paid holiday so that I could earn good pocket money and then party more with my friends.

Acting is the only profession in the world where you can travel and see various places without having to spend money from your own pocket.

I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.

If you're not on set, if you're not on stage, go to class. Find teachers you trust and who push you and who you respect as people. That's what you're getting with a teacher: a point of view. You end up taking those points of view and that turns into your point of view as an actor.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'

From an actor's point of view, if you are watching something, and you see improv, you know it. Because of your experience, you just bloody know that wasn't written.