Quotes About Acting

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

The art helps, between the acting gigs. I feel that if I can sing in Mamma Mia! then goddammit, I can hang a few paintings, give people lots of cocktails, and have a good time.

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.

But on stage you're able to just take the character from one point to the end and it's a fluid, organic piece. It's about being completely present all the time, right there in the moment.

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."

I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.

I've actually got turned down for a lot of roles because I'm not bubbly enough. People have told me to be more 'up', but I can't, really. I find it hard to be smiley and giggly all the time.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one

Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.

I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.

When it came time for college, I told my parents I was going to major in acting. And they were so removed from anything to do with show business - my dad built our house and my mom grew our food.

Acting has always been something for me that's been a romp. I just show up and I have a good time, and I hope that I get through the day and I can have lunch in the sun.

I had kissed a girl in the second season of 'Community,' but that was my first time kissing a girl ever, and I was so nervous, I almost knocked Brit Marling's teeth out.

I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.