Quotes About Acting

I was complimented for looking young and yet was offered roles of aunts, sister-in-law and very soon grandma too!

I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.

I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.

I was raised going to the movies with my grandmother as a kid. And then I'd come home, and my best friend and I would act out the films that we saw.

My grandmother was my inspiration. She was the person who took me to the theater and encouraged me to act, and she's the one who always believed in me.

I spent the most impressionable years of my life with my grandparents, and they meant a lot to me, which is why I wanted them to come around with my decision of acting.

I was inspired by Cary Grant. I wanted to do the kind of work he did and to work in light-hearted roles, in comedies.

The ability to play different people, grasp at what is running in their head and be somebody completely different from who I am, is fascinating.

If I'm bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know?

There's a joy in acting that's not present in writing, but there's a gratification in writing and creating that you can't necessarily find in acting.

I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.

I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

'Black Mass' was a really great experience.

I absolutely love to work and when they asked me to appear on 'Edge of Night' I thought it would be great fun.

Acting is a great life and all that, but it's the director who is really in control.

I've always appreciated great acting performances, but I've even learned to appreciate not so great ones 'cause it's hard.

'The Bank Job,' for me, was a great opportunity for me to do some good acting, you know?

I have got such a great opportunity to kick-start my career in Bollywood with a film starring Salman Khan.

I've loved doing 'E.R.' for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with.

Debby Ryan is fantastic, I love to have her. She's a great person and she has good acting skills.

I jumped at the chance of doing 'Holby.' It's a great show.

I feel that I have been very fortunate and had the opportunity to play some wonderful roles and movies and worked with some great talent.

I've enjoyed all of the roles I have played for different reasons, which is the great thing about acting. You love different projects for different reasons.