Quotes About Acting

I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

If I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don't want to die just for a movie. It's not worth it.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

I've made a career of taking roles that other actresses didn't want.

Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.

Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.

I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.

I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.

For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.

Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

It's just about trying to find material where I'm doing more than just being a plot device. I want to actually get to do scenes that go to interesting places and are challenging to me.

I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.

My plate is full with just acting. I want to focus on that, and then maybe direct in the future.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so Im going to actually start working on my own.