Quotes About Acting

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

People assume that I'm this trashy motel girl, and that those are the only roles I can play, but I really take it seriously, and I know that I can do more.

Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about.

Before I was a mother, when I played characters that were mothers, I used my imagination, of course.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

I played a lot of mothers before I even became a mother. It wasn't like I set out to be some sort of mother crusader.

After 'Gandhi', Bollywood offered me mothers' roles. I played mother to heroes older to me like Amitabh Bachchan and Mithun Chakrbaborty.

I like a role where some of the character's motivations are confusing or at least interesting.

I never went to acting school; when someone expounds on motivation and all that stuff, I don't understand it. I was just lucky to be able to do what I did. When I started, people said I was very natural, which I guess is difficult for a lot of people to be.

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is. I was a little bit different.

I get to play a 58-year-old time-traveling assassin. The role had a lot of layers to it that I knew would be fun to break down and figure out the motives behind.

There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.

The church has become the theater of the gospel, and in this theater, there are no passive spectators, only engaged participants, acting out what is in Christ.

For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

I have found that in this business, one of the most important things is sincerity. If you can fake that, you can do just about anything.

I did get the callback for Growing Pains. This time I knew it was a comedy and played it the way I saw Mike Seaver. It must have gone well. One day I was playing Atari when Mom interrupted my session. "Kirk," she said, sticking her head in the room. "You got it! You got the pilot!

Work never failed to give me that same ego boost I had experienced when filming that first cereal commercial. People bent over backward to give me what I wanted. And what kid doesn't want adults eating out of his hand, catering to his every wish? Because life was all about getting to the place where I could be happy all the time, acting was the perfect venue. It wasn't only the ego boost that kept me going. I truly loved what I did.