Quotes About Acting

I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

TV is an interesting business. You audition with a couple of little papers in your hand, and if you're lucky, you get to say those lines in the show. Then, once in a while, you get to do more.

I left 'Death in Paradise' because I wanted to get back on stage.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

Appearing in 'Death in Paradise' was my very first time acting in English.

Working on 'Death In Paradise' is very challenging, but it enables me to go further in my acting.

I have stopped looking at roles as lead or parallel lead. Also, I feel these are very misleading terms.

Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis.

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

Acting is something I've done since I was in high school, but I never had a model in my life, whether it was a mentor or a parent, where I could realize that acting could actually be a career.

I just always play these really extreme characters - they've all come with parental guidance stickers on them.

'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.

The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

If I weren't acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes chocolate all day long.

I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.

This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.

Park Bo Young was like a teacher to me. Personally, we were good friends, but at the same time, I admired her acting and learned a lot from her.

My very first scene on camera for anything was with Sarah Jessica Parker in the 'Sex and the City' movie, and she couldn't have been more lovely and beautiful and kind, and on top of that, she's just a killer actress.

A family is definitely in my future, but I have no idea when. I don't know how people fit it in with an acting career, but they do. Katherine Parkinson is a great example of that, so I'll have to ask her.

I want to do all kinds of roles. It's a part and parcel of my job.