Quotes About Acting

It's definitely hard to say good-bye to a character that you've played for a long time.

I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

I'm not good-looking enough, and I don't have the personality it takes to play myself like the big box-office stars.

You can play yourself and make a very good career out of it. Do the same type of role, the daring, good-looking, dashing kind of guy. I mean, there's a role for that guy in television, films, whatever. But people who are able to shape-shift and go from drama to comedy to whatever, there's an art to it. Especially in Hollywood.

I went to the theater school at DePaul University in Chicago, the Goodman School.

Any actress - goodness, we're lucky to be working. We all know that. There are few parts, a few good ones.

Oh my goodness, I'm in love with Channing Tatum, although I think I'm too old to play his love interest. They'd probably cast me as his grandmomma's friend or something like that, but anything to be in a movie with Channing.

I would be happy to do 'Sarfarosh 2'. The script should be as good as the first one. I don't want to destroy the goodwill of the first one.

For me, I need to be able to show up on set and fart around and goof around. If I can have that, when I'm not acting, then when I'm acting I can go however deep and dark and bad I need to. I developed that more with 'Breaking Bad' because I've never worked on anything as dark for as long.

I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.

I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.

Every character I've played is goofy, but it has to have some type of reality.

But I don't want to be stamped a serious actress. I am a very goofy person, too. I want to do mainstream films.

You see kids leave drama school who are drop-dead gorgeous and they just go stratospheric instant'aneously.

I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.

The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.

I actually will not be returning to 'Gossip Girl.'

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.

You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

Of course, if you're gonna make movies, you gotta make movies, and I'm not gonna say no to a good role.

I know that one of my difficulties as an actor is to try to do too much, from all those years ago when my acting took place live on a stage. It was just my shiny face there, so you've gotta be super careful how much over-expressing you're doing with your eyes and nose and so on.

As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.

That pesky acting career has always gotten in the way of me doing something with music.