Quotes About Acting

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.

No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.

I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

He watched the young actress playing the central part of a wife who mistakenly believes her husband has wronged her. She was overly trained in the teapot school of acting, striking expressive poses and attitudes as the mood of the story demanded.

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

I'm not allowed to see R-rated movies, but I did see 'Kick-Ass' because I'm in it. I'm not going to skip out on my own premiere!

Whenever I get a script I skip from the leading role to the second or third friend as I think, 'no one famous will want that so I might get it!'

Everyone wants to be glamorous, no doubt, but I was so young when I came here. I was doing all these roles, wearing a mini skirt, running around and acting 'cute.' When I'd watch myself on screen I'd be like 'eeks, I can't believe that's me.'

I enjoy wearing a saree more than a mini skirt and maybe that has come off as bad acting in some of my films, because I didn't fit in there.

There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I'm in a 'Saturday Night Live' skit.

For 'Avengers,' in the Albuquerque desert, we shot New York there. And I was standing on a platform, nine feet high... and it was the rooftop of a skyscraper in New York. And it was all desert around me!

I prefer people to say to me, 'You're one of my favorite actors,' rather than 'You're one of my favorite character actors.' It sounds like a slam. At least it sounds that way to me.

I don't see myself doing slapstick movies or being a part of them, even if they get the box office ringing. It's not my space; I haven't reached that point.

At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.

I don't feel genres have helped me as an actor. Movies can be of any genre. But if you give me slapstick, I may not do it.

I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.

Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?

Govinda can act in his sleep. He is just amazing.

I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would, in between scenes, be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?' But it's so exhausting, you can't be 'on' 12-14 hours a day.

I learned a lot from Ana Ortiz, who plays my sister in 'Sleeping with the Fishes'.

For me acting is passion, emotion, and creating the character and the whole world around the character. We enjoy all that. Sleeping on time, eating healthy, you are what your lifestyle is.

Often, when I am playing difficult roles, I have a problem sleeping because I can't leave the character behind.