Quotes About Acting

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.

I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers.

I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement.

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether its a man or a woman.

I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing it at the time and my dad encouraged it. He encouraged any extracurricular activity.

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

To be fair, it's not even the first time I've seen a dead version of myself. There was one on Harry Potter, on the last movie, that they actually used to bring to set in a body bag.

I just want to keep working, really. I just want to keep acting. Playing one part for a very long time builds up in you a desire to play as many different things as you can.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.

I haven't been on the stage in a long time.

The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.

because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.