Quotes About Acting

You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it.

Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.

I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.

I do well to interpret scripts to the best of my ability so even if I'm given a monster to play a love scene with, I will.

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

One of the things I love most about acting is just disappearing in the role, as much as I can. I think that's one of the things that intrigued me about it.

These different people that I play become the loves of my life.

I love playing confused, broken characters.

Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers.

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!

I'm a normal kid, really. I just love to act.