Quotes About Acting

As an actress, it's not only about looking good on camera, but being able to deliver the right emotions for the characters you play. This makes you more attractive on the screen. That's why I focus more on acting rather than my appearance.

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

If you want to deliver as an actor, you need to know the language. If you don't know what you are mouthing, how will you perform? For me, it is important to know the language.

I saw 'Starbuck' before I ever knew I would be involved in 'Delivery Man,' but I liked it, and then a couple of months went by, and I really knew I wanted to audition for it when it became available.

As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.

I didn't know how to act, but I was open to learning. I was not delusional that looks would help me sail through.

I'm probably not very good at rom-com, being funny on demand; I'll leave that to the comedians.

I don't feel the need to act. But if I really like the role and it doesn't demand much of my time, maybe.

Being an actress is not about waddling around grinning on demand.

Some of the roles I play are very demanding. My body and brain can't separate what is real fear from what is played fear.

It's not just about looking shocked if the scene demands it. It's about feeling that emotion. You can't lie to the camera, because it captures everything. This is what I have learnt over the years.

I get up at five in the morning if the schedule demands it and with all my lines learned.

TV's demands are different from those of films.

I like playing the bad guys. It's a way of exercising and exorcising my own personal demons.

I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L.A.

I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I loved movies and television growing up, but I'd never thought about it as, 'Oh, that guy Denzel Washington is employed as an actor.'

But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.

I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

I fell in love with art and music and dance and acting and how all those things can cultivate something really special and unique - depending on the performance and the show. That really kind of helped me develop my love of theater.

It so depends on each script, because you can say... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.

When people say, 'I know you. What have I seen you in?' I respond, 'Well, it depends on how old you are.'

I won't get a role if I say I want to do that. It depends on how saleable you're at that time.

Not only was I really, really depressed when I was not out to the world, but I just finished my NBC series, and I didn't think it was right to come out during that when I was playing a male character.