Quotes About Acting

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

Sable was a character I played for three years, but I am Rena. It would be the same as if Sean Connery went through life being called James Bond.

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

It was really fun working with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz on set.

I would love to play a fun character. Like, I would love to be in 'A Long Day's Journey Into Night.' I love that play. I'd play Edmond or Jamie. I don't care which.

Sometimes you do complete run-throughs of scenes, sometimes you break scenes down into little bits. It just depends on what the actors like to do. It's almost like jamming.

You do get into a groove, which is great, when you get to act with the same people a lot. Like with Caroline Catz - it's like a duet: you're like a duo jamming together.

I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

I love 'Modern Family.' And I love 'Glee' - the singing, the music - Jane Lynch just kills me.

A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.

It's lovely to be acting with Lauren Bacall. We're been friends for a long time - since about 1956, since she met Jason Robards when he and I did 'The Disenchanted'.

It's hard to act with just your jaw.

I used to get really jealous of Ron Howard as Opie on 'The Andy Griffith Show' - we were the same age. I would just think, 'God, that little kid can work, and I can't!'

I was incredibly jealous of friends who had bit parts in 'Home and Away.' I just hoped I'd somehow be allowed into this game.

My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like - well, I was making my mom happy.

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

'Hotel For Dogs' was fun for my family, but it was kind of hard to get in the audition room for 'Jennifer's Body' after that, you know? But I think the roles find me, in a way.

Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts in her films.

Jennifer Lawrence can play me. We look exactly the same.

Most of my stuff before CSI was kind of the jerk boyfriend, so I thought this was one of those deals, where these two have a thing going on, so we had a scene where they make out.

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

There just aren't that many Jesus roles around.

I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.