Quotes About Acting

It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'

My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't Othello. He would talk about it, though, and read Shakespeare to me.

I was very aware that my path into the industry would probably be as an actress and not in production, that I could learn a lot that way. And I did.

The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of 'Macbeth'. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

Make no mistake: I love women. I'm married to one, I was birthed by one, and I played one in my high school production of 'Romeo and Juliet.' No one else could fit into the bodice.

L.A. has great business opportunities for my film and TV production company and acting career, but it can be a very lonely place.

The beauty with U.K. productions is that, most of the time, you get all of the scripts when you audition for them.

I was in a theater company in Houston, Theatre Under the Stars, and I was involved in about 10 of their productions.

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously.

I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a while.

My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

I feel like I have a lot of dedication to the acting profession.

Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting. Not many, mind you - but politicians give you something to look down on from time to time.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you're going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

A lot of people are attracted to the acting profession because they think it's a cheap, easy, free ride. It really isn't.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

What I do on film is part of my profession.

I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.