Quotes About Acting

But when I do get recognized, I get recognized usually for 'Firefly.'

I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk.

I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.

Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.

Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor. I loved the idea of captivating an audience and moving them truly through performance, but more importantly being recognized and heavily lauded for that talent.

I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel.

If you want to be an actor because you want to be recognized on the street and have people ask you for autographs, look for another career. If you want to be an actor because you love being on stage and want to capture a person's heart, go for it.

To me, there were comedies that should go up for Oscars. I think Eddie Murphy in 'The Nutty Professor' was one of the greatest acting performances of all time, but it'd never be recognized that way. They always go for De Niro and Pacino, but Eddie Murphy played seven different people!

I had all this other life happening, and 'Lost' was this sort of seasoning - but it was never the main course. It was just this thing that I would nip off and do, so to be recognized for 'Lost' all the time is amazing.

Every actor starting out wants to be famous. One of my dreams was always to go to Paris, walk up the Champs Elysees, and be recognized, and by God, it happened!

Now that I do so many Hallmark Channel movies I am recognized in public all of the time.

I'm knocking on 50, and I'm still getting recognized for playing a 14-year-old boy. It makes me think I must still look great!

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.

But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful.

I was in musical theater when I first started, so there was always both acting and singing. But as far as getting a record deal, that took time. The majority of that time, I was acting.

My predecessors in this business of acting were fully convinced their work would never be recorded, except in the form of reviews or paintings.

You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

In 'The Smurfs,' I was actually a live action character. So, I was a real person in that movie. But I was working with animated characters, which is very strange because they're off recording their work, and we're kind of reacting to nothing when we're doing the film.

Any aspect of life can help you be a better actor because what are we doing except living life while somebody's recording it?

Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear.