Quotes About Acting

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

Jen[nifer Lawrence]'s main goal in life is to get me to laugh while we're filming sad scenes. And it's the HUNGER GAMES.

Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.

There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.

If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

Let's just say I can never be cast again after Ron Swanson. Then I have a life of theater and woodworking and my wife to look forward to, and that doesn't make me anything but very happy.

I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.

In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.

I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project.

Chemistry on film is like chemistry in real life, it's either there or it isn't.

I'm incredibly proud of 'Life On Mars' and 'Doctor Who.' They're just a blast to do.

In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in.

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

Acting is fun. It's not my whole life. It's not my entire being. It's secondary to my life. My life is primary. I'm running in the primary, as you know.

I feel blessed to have had the accumulation of life experiences that I've had, life experience just adds to the depths of a persons richness, as with acting!

As actors, we have to be able to keep ourselves open to feel, and that's a life lesson I think many people don't get a chance to learn. In my personal life, I've learned to carry this lesson with me.