Quotes About Acting

You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine.

The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.

I love working in television and film, but it's completely different. The theater will always be my home. So I would love to be a lady who gets to work in all of the mediums and who calls the theater her home.

I loved 'The Carol Burnett Show' - I thought she was the funniest lady I'd ever seen.

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

I started with theater when I was 9 years old and then got into television when I was 16, but I would say my first big break was 'Lady, La Vendedora de Rosas', a telenovela that was very successful all across Latin America.

I don't mind acting on TV if I have to play a mature, contemporary character. But I can't play a lehenga-clad lady in a saas-bahu serial.

I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.

I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!

When I have actors flirting with me in acting, in my head, I am thinking, 'If I flirt back, I could definitely land a film with this guy. If I consider going to his house for drinks, considering he has invited me, I could definitely get a film with him.' But I just don't want to do that.

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

I'm not being really intelligent in my film choices; I'm just landing the opportunity when it comes.

I seem to be landing a lot of roles with animal interactions, which is amazing.

I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord.

Often, you're not quite sure what people have seen you in, but the script lands in your inbox. That was the case with 'The Night Manager.'

Meeting with the director is an audition.

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.

I'm either shooting for films or commercials, attending events, or meeting people, so on and so forth.

I'm not a long-term member of the 'Breaking Bad' family.

Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have to have had the real experience to act certain roles. One of those was losing your family member. I was not being able to imagine how sad that could be.