Quotes About Acting

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.

I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

I can also romance a guy if I like the character and the script. Obviously, only in the film!

I auditioned several times before I got the part in 'Shuddh Desi Romance.'

You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

I am very romantic. Given a choice, I'd do only romantic films!

I would love to do a romantic comedy.

I played Romeo when I was younger, and I think I did a couple kind Romeo-like parts after that, and I kind of went, 'I mustn't do this again. I must always choose something that I don't know if I'm a good enough actor to play.'

I tried to forget about playing Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet' and just think about him as a normal guy, as a normal character, and just try and approach him the same I would every other character.

I think Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet' would be my favorite role. I've never played it, but I would love to do it.

It was watching Franco's 'Romeo and Juliet' at the age of 15 that first made me want to act.

Live-action is more fun for me, because you're acting with people. When you do voice-acting, many times you're not even in the room with the person that you're acting with.

My roots are in theater.

I remember auditioning for 'Moulin Rouge!,' the part that Ewan McGregor played. I was so young: I was literally just out of college.

I Googled every actor from my favorite film 'Annie.' Albert Finney was also from Manchester and he went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - so I auditioned there, too.

One of the first plays I ever did was at the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was the first play I got after drama school.

The Office' was nothing like anything I had ever done before - the style, everything. And Finchy is so over the top, I really did think it would ruin my career.

Acting on TV is ruled out. I admire those who do it, but I found it quite strenuous.

I've always been a gurner. I tried to reel it in. You know there was a period when I thought I was going to be a really serious actress, but the gurning... I can't get in control of it. It just runs away with me.

I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

But yeah, it's funny because I used to talk so fast before 'Gilmore Girls' and it took me several years of auditioning and being comfortable in auditions to sort of take my time because I would just go into it and rush, rush, rush.

When I heard the BBC was making 'Little Women,' I rushed to audition.

I'm not Russell Crowe. I'm not going to do a period piece.