Quotes About Acting

I grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends there!

I do think there are trends in your life once youve been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.

I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

It's fun to explore areas that are taboo that you're not allowed to in real life as an actor.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?

The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

I always drastically changed my look for each role. It's gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there's no hiding.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play it honestly, or because of time constraints with personal things in my life.

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

I think that I'm very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life.

I know that I've had a very fortunate life, but also I think my job as an actor is to connect emotionally to human beings.

All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.

I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!

I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.

Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.

I believe you can only draw from your own life as an actor. All the characters I've played, I only have my infinite eye and the presence of my life to take from.

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too.