Quotes About Acting

I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.

Amy Poehler, Amy Sedaris - they're both genius.

I became a genius on 'Ed,' though I'm not sure it was very convincing.

I still don't know what genre I fit into. I want to try my hand at different things and find out what I am best at. I want to discover myself as an actress.

Comedy is not my first go-to sort of genre.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it's fun, and that's how I grow as an actor.

I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before.

I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I will do all genres. I will do intense roles, along with the kind of films that I have grown up watching, like 'Biwi No. 1' and 'Judwaa.' But I won't do films where, if you take me out of the script, nothing changes.

As an actor I get opportunities to do different kind of films. It's not that if I have done a few comedies, I'm averse to other roles or genres. It's just that I go for the films I like and incidentally some of them have been comedies.

I can't do only goody-goody roles. I can't be complacent, I have to play characters in different genres.

I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

Now I'm 18, I'm about to turn 19 - I'll get a script for, like, a college frat boy type, and if I'd never gone to school, I wouldn't really have anything genuine to draw from.

The thing is, I get asked when I first knew I wanted to act so often, and I genuinely can't answer it. It's just... I got the bug, and that's it.

The first lead that I ever played was a young Boy George when I was seventeen. I shaved my eyebrows off. That's as far from leading man looks as you can get.

I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience.

When I watch an actress say a line, I watch how they deliver the lines with gestures.

It's all about whatever enriches you. If you decide to go the domestic route and get married and all those things, it makes you a better actor.

I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act.

When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed.

The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.

I really enjoy acting. I feel I'm getting better and better with each movie I make.

I've been to acting coaches and everything, but they had to open me up and all that, so now I'm getting better with it.