Quotes About Acting

I'm not done with acting but do find my hands full with my current responsibilities. Soon, sometime soon.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to.

The sooner I can move away from doing posh English, the better, even though that's what I am.

But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.

If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.

In the kind of films offered to me, I don't even get the role of a city-based college girl. How do I let people know I can do sophisticated, contemporary roles, too?

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles.

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

I'd like to have a solid, classy career with a good CV of work. I want to be known for acting, not my personal life. Women like Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet - they're intelligent and sophisticated. I want to be given those opportunities.

I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.

I did 10 years on 'Sopranos,' but the whole craft of acting is relatively new to me. I'm still learning that, and I'll be learning that forever.

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.

I've had a fantastic career playing great parts. In many ways, the colour of my skin has been an asset because I've been asked to play certain roles as a result. I don't apologise for playing them anymore than Robert de Niro is sorry for playing American-Italians.

So many times, when I would do a lot of retakes, I used to say sorry to my director and co-actors.

I've been really lucky to play sort of a diverse array of characters over my relatively short career, although it feels really long.

If you want someone who is sort of still, has a bit of an edge, is older, you get Morgan Freeman. If you want someone who can carry a gun and still play a father, you get Danny Glover. My category is 'that guy who happens to be black.'

The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.

I'd just got back from filming my role as Flo in 'Kidnap & Ransom' when I got the news that Channel 4 had re-commissioned 'Fresh Meat,' so I think it was the first Christmas I could actually relax knowing that I had three months' work sorted. As an actor, that's always a good feeling.

I was always sorted; I wanted to become an actor.

I never sought to play monsters in films.