Quotes About Acting

As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.

I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point of view.

And then modelling, because it pays you really well and you get to travel, I was forced to get used to the idea of standing in front of a camera and having six or seven people watching me and that actually allowed me to loosen up from an acting point of view.

My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

Having an interview in English is difficult for me, but acting in English is much harder. Because when I'm acting in English, if someone points out bad pronunciation or accent, I cannot focus on my emotions anymore, so it was very hard.

You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.

I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well.

I was always given the comedy role, even in the ballet. I was the one who fell off her points, you know? I love doing comedy, and I love being in things that make people laugh.

I think if you have a funny thought, and you want to get off a funny point, try to do it as realistically as you can. If you try to act it funny and accent the funny points, or do it in a funny style, you kind of lose it.

I never believe it when people claim they knew they wanted to be actors when they were 4 or 5 years old. I think that's rubbish. When you're that age, you just like showing off.

I took acting classes, and I'm always trying to improve myself. Everyone can improve, and the more you work in the industry, the better you are going to feel about it.

You can't learn acting through any classes.

My parents thought if they put me in drama classes, I might come out of my shell. It worked, and I've acted ever since.

I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.

There is a bearing which comes from having a little bit of something withheld. In acting classes, they always say don't reveal 100 percent: it's much more interesting.

I've never been to acting classes or anything like that. Everything I do is quite instinctual.

Acting has been a passion of mine since I was young, I took acting classes through most of high school and years following while training MMA.

I began acting when I was very young, maybe 5 or so? Just by going to acting classes and that sort of thing.

I've been doing some Shakespeare acting classes - and I really enjoyed it. I never thought that would be something I would say, but I am.

I loved acting classes, but it was very low key. Never a job job.

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

I had trained in Hindustani classical singing and my mother thought I could become a playback singer, but I always wanted to become an actor.