Quotes About Acting

I'm a full-time dad; I'm a part-time actor.

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

I acted in a Punjabi serial 'Saude Dillan De' when I was eight years old and after that I was among the top five participants in a dance show judged by Aamir Khan.

I would love to act in films if people think I am right for a particular role.

I make cameos in all my movies for no particular reason other than a joke. It's just a Hitchcock thing.

I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life.

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

I don't think I'm a neck actor in otherthings. But in Bridgerton,' particularly with the way the corset sits andthe attentionon the neck, it makes you hold yourshouldersacertain way.

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.

Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because, well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.

I met my partner, actor David Elliot, when we were both in the play 'La Ronde' by Arthur Schnitzler.

More often, I'm asked to play somebody's mother, somebody's partner, somebody's wife.

I do really like my co-stars when I'm acting. As a person, as a partner, and as something beyond that.

When you do any relationship scene, you do fall in love with your acting partner a bit.

When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.

It's a different kind of acting, this 'Law & Order' thing. They want two partners who can play off each other well and are fun to watch, but depth of character is not necessary in this job. Too much character gets in the way of the story. This is a very specific gig.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.

I try to cover myself, to have another movie under way before the last one comes out. I've been able to just scrape by, holding out for good parts instead of taking anything.

Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.