Quotes About Acting

What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie.

I love character roles. I'm happier in them. I look for roles that have some kind of complexity.

I'd love to do some theater.

I love the idea of getting to play different characters and tell some stories. When you're passionate about a project, it's nice to get the part.

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I love acting and I study religiously with my coach.

I still go to acting class. I love the craft. It's just so much fun for me, and I'm always a student.

I love walking onto the set and the blindfold is taken off and then everything I do is fresh and in the moment. That's why I loved working with Darren Aronofsky.

I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

Maybe down the road, I can see myself being part of the creative process, but acting is definitely my first and true love.

I'm definitely excited about roles where I get to wear cool costumes. I love Game of Thrones, and would love to do something like that. I'm totally a dork.

I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.

Qué es lo peor que te ha pasado, Jimmy?, lee fuera de cuadro alguien que hace el papel de una chica llamada Claire. El amor incondicional, responde el chico, y el personaje de Jimmy se vuelve con fingida vergüenza, pero el chico lee mal la frase, poniendo el énfasis donde no toca, sonriendo cuando debería haberse puesto totalmente serio, convirtiéndolo en el remate de un chiste cuando nunca lo ha sido.

See that? A guy can't jump around in his underwear and make a spectacle of himself without the ladies acting like he's some kind of guy running around in his underwear making a spectacle of himself.

Courage is a habit that is learned by acting courageously whenever the quality of courage is required.

It's called 'You Just Don't Exist.' I'm co-starring with Winifred Hailey. It's like, a romantic comedy.

Like art, sex is fraught with symbols. Family romance (Freud) means that adult sex is always representation, ritualistic acting out of vanished realities.

We're really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness—it's acting in the face of fear.

We have to learn to build safety with our in-breath and our out-breath. We have to learn to build safety with our steps, with our way of acting and reacting, with our words and our efforts to build communication.

I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.

Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.