Quotes About Acting

I get paid to act. I've never acted free for anybody and I'd rather be rewarded than awarded.

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.

There's something really wonderful about making people laugh, and if you can find the laughs within a dramatic piece, it's also very rewarding.

I do love the stage, and that is incredibly rewarding.

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

I would love to play Richard III.

Richard Madden, I loved to work alongside him; he's a very funny man.

I would rather have played a character like Opie than Little Ricky.

There wasn't really anything I wanted to do other than acting, which is ridiculous because there were no actors in my family, and we didn't know anything about acting.

I've been interested in acting since the age of 10. But as you grow up, when someone asks you what you want to become, you learn to answer it with a 'doctor/ engineer/astronaut' and your real dream of wanting to be an actor starts sounding ridiculous even to yourself.

I told my parents I wanted an agent, and they decided to let me have a go at it. Then I started working right away. I was 12.

It was easier to act, in a way, than to be myself. Somehow I just felt I was in the right place.

I always knew I wanted to act, but I never knew when and what would be the right time.

Becoming an actress was just about being in the right place at the right time.

When I was playing football, I was offered little parts in movies, but I always said 'No, thanks.' It didn't seem to be the right time.

I was starting to write and I was like, Okay, I'm going to cast myself in my own thing.' You have so many of those moments as an actor because it's about talent obviously, but it's mostly about being in the right place at the right time.

I know a lot of actors have all these expectations and believe that one thing should lead to another thing, and that's probably the right way to build a career. I don't know what's wrong with me - I just don't think like that!

My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'

It's important to take risks and challenge yourself. That's why I went into acting, really.

Production has a lot if risks but I think acting is more challenging. You have to make a character look real.

I learnt a thing or two about acting from theatre actor Robin Das who is from Odisha.

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

I was approached by my agent, who said they were interested in me for 'Mr. Robot'. Then I binge-watched the show, and I was like, 'Uh, I would like this. Show me how I'm gonna fit in there, but yeah, I would love it.'

I probably have more words to say in 'Mr. Robot' than I've had in my entire career put together.