Quotes About Acting

I'm convinced that I've been hired for jobs because I can cry on cue.

I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.

The minute you get cast, you worry they've made the most terrible mistake. There's a really awkward stage between being hired and doing the job when it doesn't feel real.

I came up in Australia and I was really lucky that straight out of school I was hired in a play. It was a production of 'The History Boys.'

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

I have been in the industry for five years and would love to play a historical character.

Though I enjoy playing historical characters, it is very taxing.

Previously, I was in a historical drama so I'm happy to show my romantic act, even though it's short.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

While doing 'Jhoom Barabar Jhoom' with Abhishek, I never thought about my dad's and Amitabhji's hit 'Jodi.' I just play my character and don't think about history and the future.

I realized some of the films I did, after a few hits that I had, they weren't working for me because I wasn't comfortable in the roles I was playing. That's why probably people thought I was a bad actress and I don't blame them.

I'm a creative person. I love to write, I love to act, I love to perform, I love to create things with my hands, so I do all of these things that are kind of like hobbies in a way. They're things that I love, so it's not like a work-life balance; it's just a work-life marriage.

I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction - I was bored! And only when I started did I think, 'Sheesh, what have I gotten into?' I had to go after it fully; I just had to.

I'd been acting as a hobby since I got to the U.K.

I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always been a hobby of mine - I've been making beats and writing songs for as long or longer than I've been acting.

Acting was a hobby for me when I started out, or maybe it was because there weren't a lot of examples of me when I found an interest in this art form.

Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.

No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

What I do is not go outside. My hobby is that I write, so if I'm not acting or being a mom, I'm writing.

I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.

Acting is my passion, and Chelsea FC is my hobby.

As far as my education goes, I've always felt that was my hobby instead of acting.

When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it's not an especially insured career choice, so I was like, 'It's a hobby. Whatever.'