Quotes About Acting

Acting is all about finding truth in made-up situations. I know that seems like a paradox, that's why it's hard. An actor's job is to be completely honest while pretending to be someone else, in a place that's dressed up to look like somewhere else, while telling a story that isn't true.

Acting was all about making yourself feel things-love,rage,euphoria,agony. She had to unlearn those things now. She had to teach herself not to feel. Refusing to feel hurt also meant she numbed herself to joy, but the sacrifice was worth it.

I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

God is not a harsh taskmaster who simply wants obedience. His instructions in his Word for thinking and acting rightly are for our benefit. He knows that when we live according to his ways, it brings us joy, fulfillment, and meaning in life.

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

Actors live in a queer sort of double world. Not many of us have the names or identities we were born with.

Was die Menschen täglich ihre Entscheidungen nennen, ist nichts weiter als ein gut einstudiertes Spiel.

I live in New York, so I don't get that many Indian scripts.

Anything, really - I'm as comfortable playing an Indian as playing a black woman or a South American.

I hope to work in Indian films again. I would love to.

I don't think of the characters as nationalities. I do not live in India. Playing people from different backgrounds, including Indians, comes easily to me.

My job is to act, whether in indie or mainstream films.

I had done a lot of indie movies before I realized that acting could be a way for me to get my family out of poverty. It was at that point that I decided to take acting seriously.

I love indie movies - I feel they can really allow you to develop a character.

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

I think I was an infant when I was on 'Gilmore Girls.'

The work of acting, in and of itself, is something that is infinitely enjoyable.

I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.

I am not that cute. However, because I had played so many cute characters, I am starting to be influenced by them.

I learned then that an actor must always be himself, and must not be influenced by the people with whom he works.

My influences are, number one, hand to Jesus, Halle Berry. I think that she's so brilliant, and I love everything that she does, even 'Catwoman.'