Quotes About Acting

I really want to work on characters that have a lot of complexity and you don't always get that in comic book movies because they're not character explorations. I have nothing against movies like that, but I do see them as kind of like a cheeseburger.

Working on 'Mad Men' was an incredible experience. It was such an incredible show with beautiful writing and so much complexity.

I like playing interesting, complicated women.

'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you.

For me it's a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment.

I think the biggest compliment an actor can have is if people forget who they're watching and get lost in the character.

When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.

I've been cast as myself so many times, I guess I should catch on and figure out if it's a compliment.

People still come to me and compliment me on 'Bobby.'

In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.

You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.

I don't want to compromise on my singing or drop down its level to start acting.

I don't think I'd want to concentrate on just acting because I love music, and things are going really well, so I think I will always continue to make music.

Actors used to concentrate on acting, but today they are businessmen, too, and think about the numbers game as well. They multi-task very well. It's admirable that they have this ability.

I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

When I'm acting and I have to remember my lines and put my mind in concert with my body, I don't tic.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.

I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the time, aren't you? But there is this worry now that children just want to be famous.