Quotes About Acting

You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!

In my last scene in 'Breaking Dawn,' Bella has just died and I run outside and crumple to the ground and just lose it. I'm bawling. That was my last scene of 'Twilight' ever and I definitely had some extra motivation.

I don't know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from 'Twilight', which I didn't really know was a heartthrob role. I really don't feel I am one.

One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

I know from teaching, that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again.

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to go through the same experiences as I did as a child actor.

I think of myself as a human being first and foremost, and secondly as a person whose profession is acting. If people want to make that into something more or less, that's up to them.

Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.

I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I'm not open to what's coming.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like Roman Holiday or My Fair Lady.

The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.

My goals are to continue acting and also to produce some independent films in the next few years. Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

I never thought Hollywood is the life I want to do. I thought acting is the life I want to do.

I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession.

I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.

I love doing a television show. It just always feels like it's a little while before you find something that feels unique and that feels like a character that you really want to play for awhile.

If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.