Quotes About Acting

I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.

If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor - your job is to fool people.

I want to act in films such as 'My Left Foot' and 'A Beautiful Mind.'

I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.

I had been acting since I was a kid. I had done 35 plays in New York before 'Serious Man,' but you never know what putting one foot in front of the other is going to do.

It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.

I've always drawn, for example, and I did consider when I was younger, it was either do I become an actor or do I become an animator cartoonist at that point. Do I work at Disneyworld or something and do animated cells or something?

Sometimes in entertainment, when people have done the Academy Awards - like, for example, in 'The Bodyguard' - I just didn't believe it; it didn't feel authentic.

There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.

Fame is an upshot of what I do. If you're a successful comedian or actor, then you're a famous one. But it's not the driving force. It's a by-product.

Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think.

I love playing guitar. I grew up with my dad playing. But acting is definitely the forefront, I guess I'd say, in terms of career and something that I really enjoy and feel lucky to be able to do.

Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you're working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.

I don't think I've ever done a real mini-series, but I love doing film first and foremost.

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

The first and foremost criterion for me when selecting a film is the character I am playing, and then the director.

I don't see myself being an actress forever.

I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.

With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

I felt that I was forgetting about all of the stresses when I was acting, and that's when I started thinking more seriously about acting.

Acting, for me, is a process of metamorphosis. It's about forgetting who I am and becoming someone entirely new.