Quotes About Acting

I love Natalie Portman. She worked when she was younger, and she's so talented and private. She doesn't do things that are too crazy, but she pushes the envelope enough.

Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.

Jennifer Lawrence is so talented and so lovely. She has a real ability to connect with people.

I want to beat up Michael Fassbender in a movie. I was with him at the beginning of his career when he did an episode of 'Murphy's Law.' He's a proper superstar and enormously talented, but I want to do a scene where I properly duff him up.

Angelina Jolie is just an extremely talented, generous, nice person to be around and to work with.

I actually moved from engineering to acting. I think what's important is how talented and passionate you are.

I think if you're talented and not desperate to do any film that comes your way, and are doing justice to all your roles, then you're fine, because you can't predict the rest. You also can't predict the audience's reaction.

Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.

I'm very grateful to have been able to work with so many talented filmmakers and actors during my career. I've learned so much from them. It's been my college, in a way.

I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.

The great privilege it has been to work with some of the most talented people on the face of the earth. My first scene in a movie was with James Cagney, for goodness sakes. There I was, just out of the U.S. Navy without an acting lesson to my name.

I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents.

I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

I have very young looks, so it's easy for me to play high school, but I'm trying to stay away from high-school movies. As I get older, I'll try and broaden my talents.

I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.

I definitely caught the acting bug, but that lasted for about two seconds when I found my way to L.A. and found that my talents were better suited behind the cameras.

But 'Strictly' is meant to showcase people with talents in acting, singing, sports, journalism... not fame-seekers with no discernible talent.

Most actresses began their career as glamorous pin-ups before being noticed for their acting talents.

My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.

I would want to do a role like the one Ezra Miller had in 'We Need To Talk About Kevin.' That is a real juicy role.

I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.

If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.

I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.

When you are a talkative and expressive person in real life, it definitely gets difficult to play someone who is so silent.