Quotes About Acting

I don't want my shows to run for more than a year as you get bored doing the same role. But you don't want your show to end in three months either.

I want to play around with my looks. It's very boring to appear the same in all your films. Then people are looking not at the character but at the actor.

I don't really want to play Will Poulter for the rest of my life, because that's boring.

I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.

I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy.

It's funny because I've resisted acting as a career for most of my life. But both my parents told me if I ever want to direct, I should act first because no director should direct until they know what it's like to be in the actor's shoes.

Both my parents are doctors, but I'm passionate about dance and have always wanted to act since I was a child.

I would tell anyone who wanted to be an actor not to bother with drama school.

It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.

I don't mind it so much if I get type cast as an authority figure. I get to do comedy no matter what it is, so it doesn't bother me.

What I play on screen doesn't bother me.

For me, I wanted to be an actor without being bothered about the medium. So when the opportunity came my way, it did not really matter on which medium I am working.

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

I've been bouncing around from comedy to drama and TV and film.

I'm very proud of my performance in 'Bow Barracks Forever.' This was one of my most enjoyable experiences.

There are times between five and seven when this house is like a bowling alley, but it's reinspired me. My acting has gotten better because of these kids. I feel the same spirit I did when I was doing Off-Broadway.

You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.

Before I starred in 'Million Dollar Baby,' I wasn't really a boxer. I just worked hard to learn as much as I could before we were there on set.

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.

I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.

I want to have the same success in my acting career as I did in my boxing career.

I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

After the series 'Roc' ended, every role offer I got was for the wise-cracking, ne'er-do-well brother or boyfriend, and I could have made a very good career doing those characters.