Quotes About Acting

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.

If I weren't acting, I think I'd want to be a professional hockey player.

I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.

In spite of what Draco is like, I really like school, and I miss it a lot when I'm filming. I've a fair idea what I want to do for my GCSEs, I will definitely be doing music.

I feel very, very fortunate to have the success that I've had. I want to keep working and keep moving forward. Acting is my dream job. I love it so much.

Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.

I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so its really confusing.

I'm looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn't want to do that on a regular basis.

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.

The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a lot of different people.

Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.

I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for Battlestar. I was very "Oh gosh, I want to be in television, I want to be in something, but I don't know if I want to be in this."

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

As an actor, that's the most important thing. You want to be able to let go and not hold onto anything, so that you can give an honest portrayal and performance.

Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

I find the film world very romantic. I want to try to be in more movies. When you're on a TV show and you do the same thing for years and years, it can get a little bit boring.

Every actor just wants good writing.

I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.