Quotes About Acting

I would love to be in the position where the role is challenging enough that I need three months to prepare for it and then six months to live the life of character.

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

Most actors love to get to the point where they're not auditioning.

I love showing up and giving a performance without the benefit of a lot of rehearsal or dissection. It's fun to me to act on a kind of instinctual level and go straight for the performance.

I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.

One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it.

I'd love to do a play a year, if I'm honest, but it depends what comes up. But I do love theatre and it's very different from TV and film, not better or worse.

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

I love good romantic comedies. There just aren't a lot of them. But, I love comedies, and I'll never stop doing them.

I'm used to a lot of love scenes. I'm used to something that requires me to kick up my heels and wink-wink, flirt-flirt with a twirl of my skirt.

I'd love to do drama if it was interesting.

I love when people improvise as long as they're great improvisers, what I mean by that is people can improvise within their characters and within the scene.

There are two different kinds of actors. There are people who take it just so damn seriously. Then there are guys like me that just get up and love doing it.

Very often, when you're playing people who love each other, or who hate each other, you manufacture those feelings. You have to do that a lot.

I love playing darker roles, or roles with meat. I feel very comfortable in that environment. I don't know why. I don't know what that says about me. I really enjoy doing complicated characters.

I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing.

I love going to the set every day, because Noah Wylie will be there waiting.

I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.

I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.

I love con-men characters in film.

I love acting and I hope I'm fortunate enough to get good, interesting roles and I hope directors and producers will keep giving me the opportunity to act as I really love doing this.

I love recording lines. It's like being an actor without having to really act.

I am constantly playing younger. I have a baby face. I'm only five-foot-one, so I am used to playing younger. I love it.