Quotes About Acting

'American Idol' gives people really wonderful opportunities, and they shouldn't take flak for what people do with that opportunity after they leave the show. A lot of casting rooms I was in, that was the only thing on my resume, and people would just be like, 'Oh, here's Katie Stevens. Another 'American Idol' girl who thinks she could be an actor.'

I want really badly to just be funny in a movie but be close to myself.

One of my favorite authors, Garbrielle Zevin, she did a book called 'Elsewhere,' that is one of my favorites, and I think they're making that into a movie too. I really want to be in that one just because the story is so beautiful.

I've probably had my best time acting - or not acting, or trying to not act - on things like 'The Low Down' or 'Treacle Jr.' I'm happiest doing things like that. Not just because they're lead roles, but because there's more freedom in them.

That's the whole reason I got into acting: I don't do this like some grown-ups have to do it, because they have families, and they have to make money. It's not my job. My dad works to support our family. So I just do it for fun.

Some people go to acting classes to learn. I just kind of went for the dates.

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

I just kind of fell into acting.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

When you see Robert Englund in a movie, you think he is the bad guy, but if I'm not the bad guy, and I'm supposed to just kind of fool the audience, it makes it a lot easier for whichever actor is the bad guy. So I find myself doing a lot of those, I think they're called red herring characters, faking out the audience.

Being comfortable with everyone on set really helps to do these intense scenes when you are not worried about everyone looking at you and what they think. You can just kind of let go and let the scene happen.

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.

Well, the hard part about doing auditions is that the person reading you the lines, they're not really into it. They're just going, 'Oh really, so why do you think that?' And they're just looking at a piece of paper.

I'm just looking for really good projects with varying characters - ones I haven't done before - so I can continue to grow as an actress.

I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.

As an actor, these kinds of big-comedic-centerpiece characters is just one thing that I love to do.

I've always been singing, and acting was just something that happened.

I never wanted to be an actor. It was just something that happened.

I never thought I could model, and I certainly never thought about acting. It's just something that happened to me.

But acting is just something I do. It's not a passion like filmmaking is.

There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.

I grew up in a lot of different places, mostly in Kansas, I really started thinking seriously about acting in high school; I just did it better than most of the other activities in school.

So if they happen to be over the age of 35 and they're male? They're probably going to recognize me from 'The Karate Kid Part II.'

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.