Quotes About Acting

I always have roles with a depressing childhood for some reason. I have a nice childhood, so I don't know why.

If I'm trying to get into character and it's an emotional scene, I'll listen to depressing or really sad music.

When I am not acting, I am in depression, and then I do depression management.

I'd like roles with more depth.

Every day, I thanked my lucky stars that I got to work with Gillian Jacobs, who is such an amazing actor and brings so much depth to everything that we do.

Acting, according to me, gets better with time and age. The more experiences you have in life, the more you have seen, the better equipped you are to deal with complexity and bring out the depth in characters.

I do not want to sign projects in which the depth and essence of my character takes second place and the focus is instead on my looks.

I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don't necessarily get to plumb the depths of kind of serious acting as often.

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

If I choose to be part of stupid films, I don't deserve to call myself an actress.

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

The kind of films that I do... they don't really have the budget for the actress to wear designer clothes. I think that is because it's mostly very relatable, real-life roles.

If not an actress, I would have been a designer. I like to work on my own clothes and make-up.

Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I've only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle and end. You know your character's arch.

People on the stage are desperate to do the screens, and people on the screens are desperate to do theater.

Being on set is the thing I love the most, and a lot of the things that come alongside acting and entertainment are the things I despise, to be quite honest.

The world is being destroyed by psychopaths, so of all the things to be concerned about - acting, it's not really up there, is it?

Being the house ethnic was destroying my life and my sense of myself, because I had been consigned to play every dusky maiden you have ever seen in your life in movies.

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

I always want to do real roles. When my father used to go to Dilip Kuamr's house, he used to show minute details of acting. I watch documentaries too.

I've been watching detective shows, like 'Wallander' and the Danish 'The Killing.' I'm like, 'That would be kind of fun to do.'