Quotes About Acting

I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people.

You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.

Numb3rs' was a wonderful gift because I had not worked in six months. It was so fun to be on that set doing these crazy things.

Personally, I have nothing to fall back on, and that creates a weird ambition that you have to be good at acting because you can't be good at anything else. I wish I had gone for my degree - that acting wasn't this be-all-and-end-all.

Honestly, I don't think screen space matters much; it's the impact your character creates that is important.

I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.

I get to do my own thing with music. I get to write the songs and sing the songs. As an actor, you have to do what someone else tells you to do and say someone else's words. And you're limited by the way you look and music is just more rewarding creatively for me.

Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.

Every time I watched my acting on 'Dynasty,' I cringed. Creatively, I felt stifled.

As an actress, you know there are limitations on what you can do creatively.

I'm tryin' to get some acting credibility, get some other work.

Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.

The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.

So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it.

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

Most times, I'm playing myself in films, like 'Rocky' or 'Creed.'

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.

I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.

I have the same criteria for choosing roles as I have always had: fantastic writing and complicated characters.

I wanted a half-hour, single-camera comedy with a great lead where I could be No. 2 or 3 on the call sheet, and it was going to get on the air. Those were my criteria, and they sent me 'Cougar Town.' I read it and loved it.

If I hadn't chosen acting, I would be a food critic.