Quotes About Acting

I think that's the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that out and create a new person.

I worked on 'Line of Duty' with Vicky McClure after she'd just finished the last series of 'This Is EnglandI think the great thing about 'Ashes To Ashes' is that it is very much its own show. and I kept nagging her to find out how it ended.

Anytime I'm given scripts where I'm sort of the fantasy girl, it's hard for me because that's not real and I don't think it's a great thing to put out there consistently.

The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character.

I lost my moorings. But you know the great thing about acting? It's all part of the gig. You get to put it in your work.

The great thing about acting is you don't have to worry about yourself at all. I tend to just get out of the way of me and let something come through.

There's a reason why I do anxious characters - it comes from a lot of personal anxiety. The great thing is, having that history, it's really fun to bring that into the characters... and play with it.

I was an actor for a little bit. That's when I started to understand fiction - and that one of the great things about fiction is that you're dependent on the characters as much as they're dependent on you.

I had really great time working with Irrfan Khan and Deepak Dobriyal.

It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me.

I loved 'Modern Family!' It was sort of the precursor to 'Trainwreck,' to that character. But I loved it. I had a great time doing it.

I had a great time on 'Game of Thrones.'

I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part. But I remember thinking this would be a great way of making a living... to be an actor. I never really thought I'd make a lot of money at it.

I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.

I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.

There are so many characters I want to play. I'm greedy about acting.

I'm this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god.

I can play lots of nationalities: Greeks, South Americans, Arabs, all sorts.

Green screen's not my favourite thing to do.

I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

It's hard, the green screen; it's a different way of working.

There are always challenges to green screen.

Theater definitely prepared me for Cyborg in the best way possible. All of the green screen definitely takes me to my minimalist theater days.

I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.