Quotes About Acting

After 'King of Monologues,' now I'm loving the term 'Bromantic Hero.'

The negative characters made me very popular but were getting too monotonous.

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe.

I turned down a part in 'Petticoat Junction.' They wanted me to play a circus giant. I didn't want to take that step into type casting. I don't want to play freaks and science-fiction monsters.

My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

I've been on 'iCarly' and 'Hannah Montana.' And a few other things.

Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.

It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barbaric human savage child for a month or so. It was a blast and definitely a great experience.

When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.

I am a method actor because I listen to a sad song when I have to act in a sad scene. That way, I try to get into the mood.

I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.

As soon as I saw the script for 'Moonlight Drawn By Clouds,' I thought it was fun, and I really wanted to do it.

Many take the roles home with them and live the part. I'm quite happy to leave mine at the studio and return home as I left: simple old Roger Moore.

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

It's weird... I've been an actor for a long time and you can walk around more or less anonymously.

More people come up to me and talk to me about 'Gilmore Girls' than anything else I've done, including 'Guardians.'

I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.

Ultimately, if you act in mainstream movies, more people will come and watch your indie movies. That's how you reach the audience.

Actually, for me, it's really funny because I play characters with mommy issues more than anything, and I have a great relationship with my mom!

More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl.

I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.