Quotes About Acting

I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.

In every film, I sport a different look for each character. It's almost as if my features change to accommodate the characters.

I was fed up with doing vampish negative roles, dolled-up with heavy makeup all the time.

I have worked alone and with a cast and enjoy the process both ways. There is more back-and-forth with a full cast, and you can feed off the other actors' performance.

There's a lot of risk involved in acting, and you can't take the same kind of risks when you have a kid to feed.

I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good.

Acting is something I feel good about doing, I'm lucky enough to love my job as well.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

Acting ceases to be work because I enjoy it. But it feels like working when I do bad work, especially when I know it is bad.

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

I'd like to be on the next 'Six Feet Under,' whatever that is.

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

I kind of fell into acting. I was very lucky.

I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.

I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

I fell into acting by going to a callback for J.C. Penney with my two older brothers when I was 4 1/2 years old. The casting director saw me and asked to bring me in the room with them. The three of us ended up booking the commercial!

My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.

I've got some stories to tell, and acting was a way I could express myself and not feel stupid. I fell in love with that.

I felt something like a sense of achievement while acting.

For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

I was really serious about being an actress. I was playing young female characters and not feeling very connected to them.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

There's always been something about Jeffrey Tambor, not only as an actor but as a person, where his ability to embody a sort of very dignified feminine way of being just - this was just very clear to me.