Quotes About Acting

Because you can't lie, Kate. Everything you think is right there on your face. I've met kindergarteners who are better actors than you.

Goodness is giving up power and acting upon the world negatively. The good are unimaginable.

Yet she knew too that she was deeply discontented and she sometimes suffered fierce feral moods of confused yearning during which it seemed to her that her whole life was a masquerade and that she was piously acting the part of a kindly affectionate serviceable woman who was just not herself.

I went on seeing him, but it was like acting in some nightmarish play.

Clement, usually a fluent speaker in any situation, could hear his voice assuming a pompous and affected tone, not unlike that which many actors use (wrongly in Clement's view) when playing Polonius.

I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.

When I'm not acting, I'm usually sailing or camping or exploring or travelling or spending time in New Zealand.

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

I had zero connection to Bollywood or movies when I started out. I worked in theatre for eight years where luckily Makarand Deshpande mentored me, helped me to improve my body language and voice modulation.

In the beginning, it was quite challenging because I had zero acting experience, and delivering dialogues was the most difficult thing for me to do. But after I began to act, I grew as an artiste.

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.

In the 'Mass Effect' universe, there is zero ad libbing.

The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on 'The Big C' has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she's warned me what to expect.

When I go into 'You're the Worst,' I'm very glammed up, and my hair and makeup is va-va-voom. Now what I'm having fun with in 'Grease' is, honestly, I go to rehearsals with zero makeup. When I get pimples, I get excited about it, like 'Yay! It helps the character!' The frumpier and uglier and grosser, the better with Jan.

I did a TV show that didn't last on ABC called 'The Zero Hour,' and my character was working at a magazine.

It's good to have experience in other ventures and have other goals. Like acting, having businesses, starting from zero and making something grow.

The most challenging part of being an actor is that every time you play a character, you have to start from ground zero.

It was the roughest day of my career, my final day of shooting on 'Breaking Bad,' knowing that I will never be able to kind of zip on that skin again.

You can play women who have a face on or who zip something up, but you have to dig deeper to actually find the humanity and real aspects.

If you're going to be a zombie in a movie, you go big or go home.

There's this one show that I want to be in so badly. I'd try everything to get into 'The Walking Dead.' I don't even care if I'm a zombie.

I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.