Quotes About Acting

You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

Michael Bisping's whole life is a film scene. He's always acting. Confronting me at UFC 213, it makes me laugh. It's a bit clownish.

You have to show the character is confused or scared or happy through your voice instead of with your face and body.

It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.

People find it confusing I'm in a band, even though music was my main thing before acting.

I don't really like simple characters too much; it's too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.

I just read the scripts that come to me, and I see the ones which I really kind of understand and connect with, whether that's a science fiction or a period piece. It doesn't really matter as long as they're original and I have something to do with the character.

It's not in every film that you connect to the role.

I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.

When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I'm much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.

I'm always a people watcher. They always had us do that at the University of Connecticut where I went for my training. I got my B.F.A. in Acting there.

The reason we like acting is connecting to other people.

The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

What I enjoy most with acting is when it's a good scene with one or two other actors, and you feel a strong connection, and you don't know how you're going to respond, and everybody is listening to each other and getting affected by each other, and even though you've rehearsed it many times, it feels like it's happening right now.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.

With 'Law & Order,' I had to be very conscious of what I was doing. I didn't want to show too much character.

It is a conscious decision that I do films in different languages.

Each and every role I have done has been a conscious decision.

It was not a conscious decision to become an actor.

I am making a conscious effort to ensure that my acting potential gets tapped in every project I do.