Quotes About Acting

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

My greatest satisfaction in acting on television is to have the opportunity to communicate with the world.

If two actors can communicate well during a scene, it works and makes for good chemistry.

That's the most important quality for any actor, for us: someone who can communicate what they're feeling without saying, 'This is how I feel... ' It's what's on their face.

Scientology helps me in acting to focus on communication.

Doing comedy and romance is easy, if I compare it with playing the role of a real-life person.

All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

'13 Reasons Why' was my first professional job out of college, so I don't have much to compare it to.

Compared to boxing, acting is more difficult. I have learnt martial arts and boxing since childhood. So, they were easier.

I think it's quite natural as an actor to compare yourself to how well other people are doing and how other people might've played that role you auditioned for. There's a lot of comparison you can do as an actor, which is natural, because it's a competitive industry. However, we're all individuals, so you can only ever be yourself.

Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.

Campaigning and acting aren't compatible. That's why Audrey Hepburn gave up acting. That's why Angelina Jolie will give up. I'm not ready to stop yet.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

The acting world is tough. It's competitive - and even more so for women - but actually, for black female actresses, the issue isn't really that it's competitive: it's that there just aren't enough roles for them in film and TV.

We actors are fortunate people, getting paid to do what we love - it's like getting paid to eat cake! There isn't much to complain about. In fact, on the days I have an off, I'm constantly telling my friends how I want to be on the sets because I miss it already.

I've worked in this business long enough that I know people who complain, like, 'My character does this, and my character does that,' and I think it's just ego talking.

I wouldn't want to ever complain about having the opportunity to audition.

I don't ever feel like I have to stop myself from complaining about how hard it is to be an actress. I mean, it's not that hard.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

After completing 'Aadum Koothu,' I was assigned to act with Cheran again for 'Mayakkannadi.' I learnt a lot working with him.