Quotes About Acting

I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is.

I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.

Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.

It's weird because I always seem to be dead. I'm gonna have to change that because I wouldn't want to be typecast.

'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don't do it from a mental kind of place because then you're just acting.

I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible because I want people to be able to watch my films and not be distracted.

[In "The Invisible Woman"] was a different type of performance which was less driven by improv. You always want moments of freshness and newness, but there was less so than I've done before.

An audience doesn't have to know the precise events behind a character's Need, Public Persona, and Tragic Flaw. But the actor portraying that character does.

So much of what they do, with Mr. Kingsley, is restraint in the name of release. It seems they have to throttle their emotions to have complete access to them. Access to one's emotions = presence in the moment. Acting = responding with authentic emotion under made-up circumstances.

Veer Zaara' changed people's outlook towards me. It was my first so-called commercial film.

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Honestly, soaps are great training. You're doing 90-plus pages a day. It was my acting class, where I built my foundation for showing up and being professional.

Acting in soaps proved a health hazard to me and I withdrew.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake District think I'm not a real actor because they've never seen me in 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours.'

When you're in a soap, it's fantastic, and I'm really grateful for the fans who watch you and support you. For me, it was the best experience because I was able to act every day and work with so many different directors and get some great storylines and learn on-screen.