Quotes About Acting

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

I am anyway acting all the time with my bacche log (kids), so I do not miss it at all!

It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

A lot of the time, I won't read the script until my second or third audition just 'cause a lot of the scripts are the same and the characters are the same.

It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.

Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's going to get an Oscar!

I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing.

I think the first time I realized I was actually acting was during Felicity. Before that, I was just going along for the ride.

I really enjoyed working on the 2009 film, 'Aliens in the Attic,' because it was shot in New Zealand and I got to visit there for the first time.

Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.

I just happened to have enough time to be able to take other parts between those first few Twilight films. But it wasn't about proving to people that I had something else to give.

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.

I was lucky enough to be a "type." Sort of a bad-guy type at the time, because I was tall and I had dark eyes. A lot of times, you don't have to be good; you just have to be the right type.

I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.

From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast.

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

When you pick a career like acting, it's challenging, but it's a lesson every time you put yourself out there. I wouldn't change it for the world - I love what I learn every single day.

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.

I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our job, and we are obligated to portray the characters in the most realistic way possible.

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

I like to play good girls more because I play bad ones all the time!

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.