Quotes About Acting

As far as I am getting good roles I am the happiest person.

Acting was always on my mind so when the offer came to me I happily agreed to do it.

I would happily do any Malayalam or Bengali film, if the script is good and I get a good challenge as an actor.

I feel really lucky because I discovered acting when I was really young, I was like nine and I think I had a really happy childhood and youth. I was doing what I wanted.

Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.

I've always been scared to do a play. I don't know why, because doing 'Happy Days' was like a play with three cameras.

People liked my performances in 'Kill Dill' and 'Happy Ending,' but I was hardly there in them.

It's just not interesting to play happy people.

I have a good time when I'm acting, and bottom line, I just want to enjoy myself and be a happy person, and acting makes me happy. I enjoy it, and it's a good way to escape yourself. You just become somebody else for a little bit, and it's a lot of fun.

I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters.

I am in movies basically for the money, and frankly, I have a hard time believing those who say they act for the love of acting!

Believe me, when I finish shooting 'Mad Men,' there's a huge chunk of time where I have a really hard time leaving my house without fake lashes on. Which is a complex because I'm not very good at applying fake lashes.

Now that I'm acting, I've realized that I don't have a lot of barriers. Certain actors have a hard time with anger or with joy or with whatever, and, I don't know, I don't seem to have those barriers.

My first scene ever on camera was a dinner scene and I ate all the food. They yelled cut and the actor across from me was like, 'You know you're going to have to eat the same thing every single time.' I learned the hard way.

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

This acting was very hard work.

To me, acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress, nobody will care about what you look like - it's all about what you can do.

Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.

It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.

I've played a lot of bad guys over the years, a lot of hardcore guys. At the same time, I've done a lot of comedy.

Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter.

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.