Quotes About Acting

The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.

Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.'

For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!

It is when I am convinced about my character that I can do justice to that role.

I feel a bit scared at times as I feel if I am not convinced about the scene, the audiences won't be either, so I have to give my best.

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

I don't see many convincing heavies in movies. They don't scare me.

Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

If I am part of a movie, the character I handle should make sense to me at first and should also be convincing to the audiences, in terms of casting.

It's the coolest job to be on Broadway.

Playing a cop has always been lucky for me.

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.

I've played a lot of cop parts.

As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other battle, which is Asian Americans playing roles that aren't written for Asians, and I think that's something that completely should happen; Why can't an Asian American male just play a leading cop figure... or the Matt Damon roles?

I want to be strong enough to cope with the roles, but I don't want to be cast as the guy that takes his shirt off.

When life gave me tough situations, acting helped me cope with those situations.

I don't want to play a copper. I couldn't do it.

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'

Reading scripts or commercial copy isn't a problem for me, so I can really focus on the acting instead of it being secondary.

It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.