Quotes About Acting

This schizophrenic thinking that a glamorous heroine cannot act and an actress cannot ooze glamour must go.

I was never interested in roles where I would have to dance and romance heroines.

We heroines don't get good roles.

I have no hesitation in taking up more acting assignments if good roles come.

I didnt and I dont have any hesitation in playing mother on screen. If given a chance, I can even play a father.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

I don't really look at genre. I mean, sometimes you might be playing heavies a lot, and you're like, 'Hey, it'd be nice to do a romantic comedy.'

On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense here.' And they can show me the screen, and I can be like, 'I know exactly what to do here.'

The director will be like, 'Hey, great take. Do you want to see the playback?' And I'm like, 'Definitely not.'

At the end of the day, I write characters that I want to play, because I just think, 'Hey, maybe one day it'll get made.'

Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I'm used to playing characters that are so different to me and I love that; it's my safety blanket and I hide behind the character.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

All male roles are written in a way where you just hide what's going on inside you, and all female roles are written in a way where they expose everything.

I'm an actress. You can hide behind your character when you're acting - you're not being yourself.

When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

Actors are bloody marvelous at hiding.

I went into acting because I was hiding from myself, and although acting has become more of a habit now, I think I am still hiding.

Comedy is a way of hiding - especially character comedy.

I really consider acting a high art.