Quotes About Acting

I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.

I am not that big a method actor.

I'm not a Method actor - ask anybody.

I don't know if I'm a method actor.

I'm a method actor.

I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.

I'm not a method actor. I try to stay separate but to imagine what they'd feel, to put myself in their shoes.

I never really thought I was a method actor or anything like that.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

It's really tough to be a Mexican on 'Breaking Bad.'

Some Mexicans go to Hollywood and lose career in Mexico because they play imitation. I don't want this to happen to me.

As a young actress, I started out acting in beautiful independent movies in Mexico.

I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.

In 'Of Mice And Men' I play a straight dramatic role and I'm the only female in the play.

Michael C. Hall is an incredibly detailed actor who can convey so much with just an eyebrow.

I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.

I knew the story of 'War Horse' very well. I had read the book even before I did the auditions. I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.

Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.

There's something really amazing about watching an actor like Michael C. Hall or Jennifer Carpenter, who are completely professional and do everything so brilliantly, but yet can have a really great time on set.

Did you happen to catch the film I did between 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Kong?' It was a nice little Jennifer Garner comedy, '13 Going on 30,' and I play her boss. In my big scene, I get to moonwalk - pretty well, I thought - to Michael Jackson.

I'm looking forward to playing Michael Bluth many, many more times.

I had one day with him, and he was asleep in the scene, but I told my entire family that I was in a scene with Michael Caine.

I got to work with Sarah Michelle Gellar, and that's the thing that you dream of.

I learned a lot from watching actors like Michelle Gomez and Richard Coyle and Miranda Otto, but particularly in the beginning Michelle because I've never seen someone so fearlessly wild.