Quotes About Acting

After a three-month course in acting, I bagged my first film 'Suraksha' - opposite actor Suniel Shetty.

Voice work is fun. But about three-quarters of the things you enjoy about acting are just not there. You're not working with another actor; you're not working with an audience. You're just working with a bunch of writers and a microphone. It's very abstract.

I had to leave my three-year acting course at Guildhall a little early to start filming Chris Nolan's 'Dunkirk.' It was an absolute dream come true.

Writing is harder than acting. I enjoy acting for just the brevity with which you can be in the experience of doing it. Writing is kind of more satisfying in that you're creating a world and doing something that feels bigger, but it's very time consuming and has a higher threshold for failure.

I didn't really take a lot of any on-camera classes or anything like that. I really just threw all of my energy into auditioning, and I know that I basically just did things based on feedback that I would get.

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

Hopefully, everyone has the same feeling I do when they perform. I get such a thrill from getting to play make believe. My favorite place to be is trying to be somebody else.

I started studying acting to become a better model. But, in the course of doing so, I found myself feeling the same thrill and enthusiasm that I felt the first time I came to walk on the runway.

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.

I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go.

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled.

I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.

Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.

I think most character people that you talk to, it's like, whatever they offer us, we are thrilled to do. I won't do anything that's immoral or illicit. I did turn down eating a dead body once. I turned down a few really creepy horror movies. For the most part, I can usually find a way into whatever character.

I'm thrilled to be going back into 'Hollyoaks' and bringing Jude back.

I'm so thrilled to be here on the set of 'Supergirl!'

Sheesha' is a thriller. It was exciting to play my first double role in the film.

I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.

I find the horror genre quite challenging. That's not to say everything I've done has been straight horror - a lot of them have been more on the thriller side. But regardless, I find it the most challenging as an actor to create sheer anxiety and terror out of nowhere because there's nothing scary going on and you have to act like it is.

When I was a kid, I was into psychological thrillers. When I was 12, my favorite movie was 'Thirteen.' I just really liked movies that showed an extreme range in acting. That's what made me want to become an actress.

Thrillers excite me as an actor and I have always wanted to be a part of one.

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.