Quotes About Acting

If I were very handsome, maybe I'd have been an actor.

Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven hours later. How do you hang on to that feeling all day without burning up, without going so far that you have nothing left to give when the cameras roll again?

If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

And after every audition I booked, my parents would buy me a Barbie, so that was it for me: You got a Barbie, and you got to hang out with friends. And I thought it was just the best thing ever.

What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.

'17 Again' was one of the best times of my life. The whole cast was really close. We were like a family. When we weren't working, we'd all hang out. It was a great group of people.

I'm able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

Weirdly, when I'm playing an English person, I feel like I've got nothing to hang on to, and it feels a bit strange and exposing.

I don't want to play father roles. And I use father roles figuratively for roles that are just hanging around... don't want to be a piece of furniture in films.

I was not one of those children hanging on Ma's coat-tails following her round sets. I'd go to the theatre after school if she was working, but I didn't even know what an agent was.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Everybody wants to have their 'Breaking Bad.' It went to Bryan Cranston. It couldn't have happened to a better guy or a better actor.

I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.

It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.

For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the movie is going on and try to get into what my character's going to be like, to try to get some consistency, because they shoot movies out of order.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'

Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.

Eventually, I realized that there was only so much that I could put in the way of my happiness, and acting made me happier than anything else.

I'm never happier than when I'm on set.

At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.

I wish I could play an actress of the '50s. It will be the happiest thing for me to do.

If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.

I'm happiest when in front of the camera, and I didn't know it until I got up there.