Quotes About Acting

The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.

I know that the greatest of actresses has about 20 good years of acting in her and that she will go on living for 30 or 40 years as a human being. So, the conclusion I have come to is that I can't make acting my whole life.

Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.

As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.

You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

I always wanted to act. To be with my friends. To share something with the audience about the human condition.

I just don't play a character for the heck of it. Rather, I always look for a human element in every character that I play.

One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn't. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.

Commercial auditions can be pretty humiliating.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.

I'm not funny ha-ha, but I look for real humour in just about everything I've ever played.

I had a lot of friends who dreamed of being actors, and as I hung out with them, I became more interested in it.

I have a hunger for good roles.

I'm interested in a lot. Like right now, I'm just really excited for 'Catching Fire' and 'Mockingjay' Part 1 and 2. But I love playing characters like Prim - I mean, Prim is like my dream character - but after 'The Hunger Games', it would be fun to look and see what else I could do well. But right now, Prim is like my dream role.

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

'Hunger Games' was an awesome job. I never had to learn any lines. I never had to do any ADR.

I enjoy playing Mr. Darcy, but I'm not hungry to play Mark Darcy again.

It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters. And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.