Quotes About Acting

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

It's what I've always wanted to do and each part you play gets you closer and closer to the roles that you dreamed of playing.

I've played a mother before, but it's always been a very young child, which is closer to what I can imagine my own life looking like.

At some point, I came out to a lot of friends and some family, but then I went back in the closet when I started working as an actor in America.

I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

My mom used to play a lot of super character-y parts... so I was sort of raised to be a clown.

I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.

I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that.

If you're not in someone's face, they're not going to remember you. So get yourself back into an acting class; get a coach. Do those things you did when you were 20 and wanted it so bad.

I take class at the Groundlings, and my personal coach is Lesley Kahn.

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.

I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

My only non-acting job was being a barista at Coffee Bean. While I was in college, and I had a blast! I loved making drinks because I got to be like a mad scientist.

I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences.

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

Forget about hair or our appearance. My acting style is different from my other colleagues.

I definitely want to continue being an actress. I love it. The reason I'm going to college is because I do want knowledge in another field. College isn't the college experience for me. I'm not going to be in a sorority. I'm not going to network. I'm not even really going to make my lifelong friends.

In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

You do a lot of movies, then you let others do it when you go and perform another role in life. When you again return to acting it shouldn't be taken as their comeback.

People always call me a comedian. And I don't really see myself like that. I guess I just consider myself an actor who does comedy. But who wants to do other things as well.

People always tell me, 'You should do drama. You should do drama.' Even when I first got an agent, they were like, 'We want to send you out to be dramatic.' And I'm like, 'No. I'm a comedian. I'm funny. I want to do funny stuff.'