Quotes About Acting

I go by my judgement when a role is offered to me.

I can't play a character that I am judging.

I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's better than the other person shouldn't be part of why we're doing this job. It should be about entertaining people.

Be it judging or be it acting, yeah if something interesting comes my way even if it's judging for another show, I'll be open to it.

If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.

Acting is very anthropological for me. It makes me less judgmental.

I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.

I have always wanted to work with Judy Dench, and that hasn't happened yet, so that would be fun.

In England, I've had a more balanced career directing and acting. It can be quite difficult to juggle the two careers.

I used to juggle from one set to the next. I would start at 5 A. M. in the morning and would sometimes finish only at 5 A. M. the next day. I would then go home, take a bath and set out again. There would be no sleep at all.

For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?

If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.

That's an actor's dream to get something meaty and juicy and challenging to work on.

It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play.

As an actor, the flaws are the things that are juicy to play. If the character is perfect, it can be a little boring.

When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.

I always think about stuff I learned, in any scene. Juilliard taught me a lot.

I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.

It would be great to go to school all year and do movies during the summer, but it doesn't work that way. I'm not Julia Roberts, so I have to be flexible.

No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, 'Oh, Julie Adams - 'Creature from the Black Lagoon.'

The film that I go on about and drive people mad is 'Don't Look Now' with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. It's the best married couple acting you have ever seen in any film, the way they are together.

I'd love the career of Julie Walters. As a man.

I've always had a thing about Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, and Imelda Staunton. I'm hoping to follow in their footsteps.

I was in the National Youth Theatre, too, but there was no dancing there. I was doing plays like 'Julius Caesar' and playing the lute very badly.