Quotes About Acting

I think I probably have a creepy kind of scary quality. Otherwise, I wouldn't get jobs. But I also think it has a little bit to do with, you've done it a couple times, and then people see you that way.

Ranbir has the ability to be a natural in front of the camera. There is nothing artificial about him. When I watch him on screen, I always feel that he is not acting. And I see this quality only in him among my contemporaries. I am a big Ranbir Kapoor fan.

I am comfortable doing glamorous roles and have no qualms going nude if the character demands it.

There are a lot more roles for men than there are for women. So men get their fee up by sheer quantity of material.

You have to emote much more to get what you're trying to get across to come through a quarter inch of latex that's superglued to your face.

I went to UCLA for a year and a quarter. There were too many students at UCLA interested in what I was interested in, and they couldn't accommodate all of us. I wasn't allowed to take voice or dance, only theater and acting. So I saved my money and, at 19, moved to New York.

It's funny: a lot of roles I do read for mention physical presence - like, 'built like a quarterback' - and for me, it's pretty boring because I don't want that to be the most important thing. I'm not trying to be Dwayne Johnson.

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.

I am a man who happens to play women's parts. And I'm not a drag queen. I'd like to think that I'm several levels above that.

I've always been a bit of a drama queen. I was into make-believe and dressing up.

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.

Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did 'Kings and Queen', had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and I was supposed to direct my own film!

I think Johnny Depp could play just about any role - I'd love to see what he would do with the Red Queen!

I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.

There is no first-hand account of what the Queen was saying or thinking, so my job as an actor is to interpret her circumstances.

'Queen' is an interesting film, and I have always been motivated by roles that help alleviate women empowerment in some form.

When I was approached to play the queen of witchland, I was fascinated.

I have played queens on screen in the past.

'Scream Queens' is its own reality.

It's been so great being on 'American Horror Story' and 'Scream Queens' because there were some days when I didn't work, and I would spend my time shadowing directors.

I knew that I wanted to primarily play queer characters.