Quotes About Acting

I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.

I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of 'Postman Pat.' It has been a joy to do.

That's one thing that attracts me to roles the most - how much potential there is for me to learn from it.

I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to write my own things. Since then, I have written a couple of shows. I was nominated for playwright of the year for a play I wrote called 'Potential Space.'

I've always loved to write. I've been writing a lot longer than I've been acting, and I hope to continue to do that and maybe do it a little bit more in terms of, like, writing movies that I could potentially act in.

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

When I told people I was going to be doing the movie and the voice of Dobby, they were kind of awestruck, the people who knew about Harry Potter. I felt rather guilty that I didn't really understand the scale of the job I was about to take on. Now, I am well aware of what I'm doing, and actually, it feels a very serious acting responsibility.

I realized on my first day on set of 'Miss Potter' that there wasn't going to be anything else that could make me as happy or feel as fulfilled as acting does.

Before starring in 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I must have watched only 20-odd movies, out of which eight were part of the 'Harry Potter' series.

I don't like when people say I act good for my age. Who would have said that to Daniel Radcliffe or Emma Watson when they were filming 'Harry Potter?'

I lost 35 pounds before I did 'I, Tonya' and then I had to put it back on for that.

For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.

The scripts don't come pouring in; I have to fight for every part.

I have a couple of acting projects coming up but Pow Pow Family Band is very much an ongoing thing.

I really enjoyed doing Albee's 'The Goat.' It's a powerful piece and a really exciting play to do.

I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

Before I did 'How I Met Your Mother,' I was not considered a comedic actress.

I always considered myself the world's worst actress.

I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever. I want to do different stuff, but I want it all to be just as good as this film. I want to be consistent.