Quotes About Acting

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

I see society as something dangerous, and you have to save yourself from the rules. I think acting is the way I save myself.

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

I want to be known as the Daniel Day-Lewis of TV dads.

A lot of acting, as I grew up wanting to do, is kind of like magic... I'm not comparing myself to him in the least bit, but if you knew what Daniel Day-Lewis was doing every step of the way and what he was eating, I don't think when he popped up as Lincoln we would quite believe it.

I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.

Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis - or maybe, no, pretty much just him - you're cast because you're you.

Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.

That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.

I'm way more attracted to character stuff and darker roles. It's just my personality, I guess.

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

I think every role that I go up for is daunting.

David Cassidy is my father, yes... But for me, it was always really important with acting to stay in class, study it, and earn it on my own. My dad didn't help me.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.

I don't love getting up at the crack of dawn and having makeup put on my face for three hours - like, I really don't like it - and then having a part that's just not that challenging.

I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.

I still read scripts, and if something great comes along, that's great... but this is my day job. The Row is where I go every day.