Quotes About Acting

I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend.

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.

An actor cannot say no, it's against his job. If he wants the part he has to say yes. [But] it's very bad for you to say you can do something and then not do it, so you have to manage to do it.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment.

Acting in "Star Wars," I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.

You don't live life. You act it.

Captain Blood, Robin Hood, Don Juan -Flynn had played them all. Sometimes if the mood struck him, he'd even played them well.

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Getting to play characters so unlike myself is cathartic.

It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

I don't think, because I'm going to school for something else, that I will stop being an actress.

With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.

I'm always polite in auditions, but I wasn't like, 'Oh, please give me the job,' for 'Robin Hood' because I didn't think I'd get it. I got told about the audition just a few days before I went to India to film something else. I must have been a bit cocky with it.

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.

Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well.