Quotes About Acting

If needed, I would have even given seven years of my life for 'Baahubali,' as such characters are rare to play in a lifetime for any actor. I consider myself very fortunate and lucky for it.

Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.

As actors, our job is to step into other people's shoes, So our capacity for compassion is like, next level, and that's why it's rare that you find a non-liberal actor.

For a long time, I couldn't cry on stage. I cried very rarely as a child.

You can never fight for a part or can't beg them to do another audition. You can try, but that rarely works.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I've worked in.

Ever since I started doing television, I tended to get cast, for the most part, as these strong, intelligent women... Which is wonderful, but very rarely do I get to be the goofy girl that I am.

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.

Acting and directing are two separate disciplines that rarely mix.

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

Directing was rarely a thought in my head growing up. Especially not when I first began acting or working on my first professional sets.

I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room with another director.

As roles go, very rarely do you get a role written for you or a director who wants you and only you for the part.

I've been extremely lucky in that I've been a very successful model for a long time. So now I'm an actress and a mother. I'm a theatre rat, which I always wanted to be - I've wanted to act since I was 14 - and I never get bored, ever, and I have four beautiful children. I am, in fact, so darn lucky.

There's a picture of me at 3 years old playing the baby rat in 'The Pied Piper.'

In cinema, I would not really rate my costar and I would not pick a project because of the costar. I would pick a project because of the director. And the script.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

I'd much rather play the psycho than the pretty girl in hot pants.

Acting is probably what I'm best at, but there are certain stories kind of rattling around in my head that I like the idea of developing over time.

It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.