Quotes About Acting

Apart from playing Billy Flynn in 'Chicago' in the West End, Ive not done much acting.

It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

I think I've made some choices that maybe I wasn't so sure about for some reason or another. But I'm one of the lucky ones. Even when I was young, I played Bird, and that's a role people wait for their whole lifetime.

It's funny. I did give birth to an alien on 'The X-Files.' And it's just the teaser, so I'm dead before we even get into the episode.

I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!

Theatre is what I've always done, really, especially with the RSC, but I do bits and pieces on TV.

I love playing the bitter guy.

Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

I enjoy doing comic roles that blend with the story. I am looking for cinema that is sensible and is entertaining and engaging, be it is comic or serious.

I am of the belief that acting is a form of blended art that shouldn't be restricted to a particular type or even a country.

I have always been into all kinds of sports, and have blended acting with sports.

Artists are so blessed as we get to live so many lives while doing different films.

I never grew up thinking I wanted to be a quote-unquote star or anything. My thing was just feeling blessed to be able to make my living acting.

When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that's almost 40 years old.

I think that it's such a blessing to be able to act for a living. I can't imagine a better job. I've had a lot of other jobs, and I'm really, really glad that I get to do this one.

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

I was very lucky that my first film, 'The Blind Side,' I worked with Sandra Bullock.

My first real experience of acting was 'Peaky Blinders.' That was the most intense experience. In those situations you learn so quickly, and I did. My brother had the script for the second season - they had already done the first - and he said there was a great part for me.

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

I have learnt three things from Barry John which are applicable to life, too: Don't expect anything from another actor, one shouldn't judge, and one shouldn't block things.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.