Quotes About Acting

You know, I've never shot a gun in a movie.

I enact as a female in 'Guru En Aalu' for the first time.

I don't know if I do anything to get into character: I just go with my gut.

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.

I guess my training at NSD helped for I had developed a habit of building up my character and getting intense.

Michael Rooker is like the Merle Haggard of the acting world. Never a dull moment.

I never really thought about acting when I was little; I was just getting a haircut at a salon when I was 10, and a woman approached my mom about putting me forward for an audition!

I did 'Eubie!' on Broadway with the Hines brothers, 'Comin' Uptown' with Gregory Hines, and then 'Hairspray.'

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

When I was doing 'All in the Family,' half the time, I was looking at where the cameras were, where were the other actors in the scene, what the audience was doing.

When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.'

'Hester Street' was my most complete character study, but 'Annie Hall' and 'The Last Detail' were also great.

The idea of acting on the first 'Halloween', it didn't really apply to my eventual work, working with actors.

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

I'd love to play Hamlet.

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.

Definitely when you get handed roles like Joel in 'The Last of Us,' that's something that will change your life, and I learned so much from that role.

What I didn't know was that I don't need to act. I might want to act—just for the love of acting—but not because I need to earn the right to feel loved by God. I've got something much better. . . . I feel loved by the person I love.