Quotes About Acting

I have always been a good mimic.

I'm a good mimic.

See, there are just that many in 'character' roles that you can get. So I will wait for something mind-blowing to come my way.

I remember auditioning for something where the woman was supposed to be 42, and I was 33 or something, and they were like, 'No women over 35 can audition.' That was in the breakdown. I don't think they would do that anymore - I would like to hope that they wouldn't put that in writing - but it's mind-boggling.

There's an element of control that comes with acting which you've just got to be really mindful of.

There's nothing wrong in doing a mindless masala; it's just something I don't see myself doing.

Film was nothing like television; there was a craft to it, and I realized how much hard work was needed. It was not some mindless, two-bit job that only requires you to look good.

I like everybody at 'Criminal Minds.' I would like to guest star, but I don't know if that is in the cards.

I never had had a large group of friends, so I often felt a little out of place and like I was in a different mindset from everyone else around me because I was so focused on my acting career.

I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to take me into minor surgeries when I was a kid and let me watch, so I definitely have a passion for it, but it's not as big a passion as I have for acting and creating characters.

I've been extremely lucky in that I've been able to play roles that are not defined by their ethnicity. But that's not a common thing for people of ethnic minorities.

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.

I've known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was 'Along Came Polly.'

Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!

A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.

It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that.

Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.'

Acting was fun for a while. I loved every minute of the really good things I did but probably wasn't as good as I should have been.

Istinski i u stvarnosti na svijetu još samo postoje glumci koji se igraju rada, nema radnika. Sve se glumi, ništa se više zbiljski ne ?ini.

A great statesman thinks several times, and acts; a young lady acts, and thinks several times.

No; the charm is worked by common sense, and the spell can only be broke by your acting stupidly.

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

Escribir bien casi supondría pensar bien, y esto no está muy lejos del obrar bien.