Quotes About Acting

With those long American TV contracts you think, 'yes, at the end of that I'd be rich.' But at the same time you feel inside you a kind of death, because I enjoy playing lots of different characters.

I played Li'l Abner and Batman in school plays; I wanted to be an actor to play all these different characters.

Essaying different characters on screen and doing justice to each role entails its own set of research and hard work.

I was looking to play different characters, and films didn't offer many choices.

Generally, I travel with my own cast to stage plays in different countries.

I've been lucky enough to have a lot of romantic leads in movies and indies, and you do form a different kind of connection when you do that together as actors.

I enjoy playing different kind of people.

I have been quite lucky as an actor to have managed to play different kinds of roles.

I don't think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because we're pretty much two different kinds of actors.

As a character actor, you go out for all different kinds of things.

I understand that, being born with a certain face, people want to see me in certain roles. But one needs to break that image by doing different kinds of films.

I'm happy I got to do different kinds of roles - romance, action, and even a satire in 'Bangistan.'

It's true you can end up as rich as Croesus but the thing I enjoy about acting is doing lots of different kinds of things.

Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She's bigger than me. She's on a different level of performance that I have never done.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

I think the best dramatic actors know how to tap into their character's humor.

When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.

You know how there's always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? I'm not that girl. It takes a lot to get me to that place.

I think as an actor you have to be open to your emotions - that's how you tap into other characters. Besides, by being so open I've come to terms with how screwed I am!

I'm a very happy-go-lucky lover of all mankind as a person in real life. So when I play a darker character, I have to tap into something that isn't my natural way, and what I found was that I think human beings have the potential for all of these emotions.

I think the first role I ever played was the Magic Carpet in 'Aladdin Jr.' I did a lot of tap dancing and not a lot of dialogue. But I loved it so much, and I loved the way people responded to the characters.

Upon graduating from my acting program at The Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA, I went to my first tap audition. It was for the 1st national equity tour of '42nd Street.'