Quotes About Acting

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if I could have. It was this amazing period of my life where everything was so safe.

I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life.

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

I just have so much fun playing bad girl roles. Getting to say things that in life you would never ordinarily say, there's something really liberating about that. It's fun.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

'House' was such a special part of my life.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.

I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.