Quotes About Acting

I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.

A role I would not do: cool jock. That's not something I'd be interested in doing.

I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pesci' on the set.

Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.

The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

People often call me saying: 'Johnny, we have a role that we think only you can do.' If I like the character, then I instantly say yes to them.

Johnny Depp is probably the best actor.

I'm a big fan of character actors like Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman. My goal is to continue playing character roles in indie films and move into playing character leads.

I look at actors like Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, and Benicio Del Toro, and they play all these different characters. I'm hoping that, in my lifetime, I'll be able to look back and say, 'You know what? I did all these different characters, and I enjoyed every single film I did.'

Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'

We think it's fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That's not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn't become actors.

I joined the drama club when I was in 11th grade.

I learned acting while doing my shows. I never joined any course or anything. I just jumped into acting. I learn from experience.

I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.

Whenever I go to any particular event, people are shocked that I'm a fighter. To be a fighter, I have to look a certain way, and to be an actress, I have to look a certain way. I have to change that; I've joined acting to do meaningful cinema and to show that there is much more than glamour that actresses can offer.

I grew fond of acting rather late. And that was because I was not getting any job. I had a few friends in Delhi who were associated with theater. They took me to see some plays in Delhi and Baroda. That led me to believe the I could also act. And it was after that I joined National School of Drama in 1993.

I first started stage acting at the age of four when I joined a local Stagecoach group.

I used to watch 'Hollyoaks' before I joined the show, and I always loved the McQueens. To be part of that now is just brilliant.

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

After joining theatre, I started thinking that acting in films was not half as challenging as theatre.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

I do a joke in my stand-up where I say I'm a Christian, but I'm not a Christian comedian. I think that's definitely how I see my acting. I'm an actor who happens to be a Christian.

Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me.

I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me kind of as a joke. But really, people think of me as a country artist who can act. That's my favorite compliment.