Quotes About Acting

I fell into music, but I just needed to find the right moment to jump into acting.

For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It's not like I get to do that all of the time.

When I was a kid, my dream was to be an actress and to be able to jump from one world to another, to disappear into roles, that people wouldn't recognize me from one movie to another. So I feel very lucky that I have the opportunity to live that dream.

I have no 'dream role.' It just comes to me; it's very intuitive, and I say, 'OK, I have to do this now.' It's not logical; just, 'I have to jump into this very strange character,' or something like that. I can't even explain it.

I'm a little Italian girl from New Haven who, as an actor, gets to jump classes through language.

Once acting hit me, once that bug hit me, I just... took the jump and dove right in.

I adored my years playing Rodney McKay and I would jump at any chance to reprise the role!

I don't want to do roles in films which I have already done on TV. What is the point of jumping to films and doing the same thing?

I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.

I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.

I had done some commercial work in junior high and stuff - my mother would bring me into the city, and we'd go on these crazy castings. Acting was something I always dreamed of doing... it was my passion when I was young.

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.

I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.

Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. One has to work just as much with children as with adults, but the manner of work is very different. I never tell the children the actual truth of the thing that I want them to act.

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.

When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can just be present with the other actors and allow what's going to happen to happen without too much preconception.

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

I get a lot of dramas, but I'd like to do a romantic comedy type of movie; that'd be a nice step for me. No more screaming or running or shooting... for one movie where I can just be in love with a boy.

For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don't want to just be myself.

The best thing I ever learned when I first started acting is that you audition, and then you forget about it when you walk out the door. Even when you have a callback, you can't bank on things until you actually book that job, or your heart will just be broken over and over again.

I might just be way too boring to ever be a really great actress.

It used to just be a SAG card, and then you got an AFTRA card. I got my AFTRA card doing a commercial in Atlanta. I got my SAG card doing a beer commercial from 100 years ago; it was one of the first national commercials with a family in it that was black and normal, and I played the daughter.