Quotes About Acting

The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.

Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, I'm just fully invested in everything that person's saying.

I'm always in awe at how fast television is and how quickly you're called upon to be 100 percent invested in a character with the lines.

In 'Jonaki,' it isn't about the individual actor. The actor is as important as the wall, or the water flowing down the wall, or a shadow. That kind of acting is also fascinating to me, not to be invisible necessarily, but to be in perfect synchronicity with the environment.

I would do more film roles if I am invited.

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

I didn't make a decision not to be married and not to be a mother - life just turned out like that because my involvement in acting was so total.

Buying involves decision-making. It's a performance activity, like sports or acting.

Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.

I moved to London when I was 18 to develop my acting career, but I still love going home to Ireland to recharge my batteries.

Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.

I am the biggest klutz on set. I honestly don't think I have ever been as klutzy as when I'm on set. People call me 'Grace' ironically because I'm not graceful. It's ridiculous.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we'd work all the time, and we'd always get better. But it's not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do.

I think what matters is whatever you do on screen should be good irrespective of the time you have on screen.

People are ready to take good actors, irrespective of whether he is a TV actor or a filmstar.

I don't think there should be any discrimination between TV and film actors. I think our job is to act, irrespective of the medium.

I'm happy to do good roles, irrespective of language.

I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.

I always wanted to live outside of Australia... because I think it's good to see the world and get out of where you've been living, particularly if you're from somewhere like Australia, which is so isolated from the rest of the world. I chose New York because there was such a great choice of acting classes and it's such an intense place.

I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.