Quotes About Acting

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.

People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

It's always nice to have people say you're good-looking. But I do get told I'm not right for parts because I'm too good-looking.

I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

People say, 'Well, whose career do you follow? Where do you see your career going? What movie do you want to do next?' And I can't tell you what type of movie I would go and do next. I would have to read the script and feel for a character. And if I feel in my gut for a character, I know that that's somebody I have to play.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

My first audition was for a Dr. Pepper commercial.

Auditioning for a couple of years, 99 per cent of the time you are doing an American accent.

I wasn't interested in being an actor per se, but I liked acting, and I liked seeing what people would do.

I've never been attracted to sci-fi per se. People tell me I'm in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed my mind that 'The Matrix' was genre.

I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters.

For all the good that Alok Nath had done, being perceived as a father figure, the fact that he was hitting on a girl, who was playing his daughter, made me almost want to throw up.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.

It's interesting: I think, as a Latino actor, the biggest challenge is being called 'Latino' because immediately, the world has a perception of what that means.

I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.

I did not want the audience to have the perception that I wore a bikini on screen.