Quotes About Acting

To be front and center watching Keri Russell work is amazing.

Well, some people assume when Russell is singing that it is coming from his feelings, but sometimes he's just playing a character.

When I got into drama school, that's when I knew that I could safely say that I wanted to be a professional actor.

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

I don't want to just do any acting role that comes just for the sake of getting in a film.

'Death Of A Salesman' is a great acting job.

I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'

I find that I relate to most of the characters that I play on a really personal level, just because we're the same age, we're girls, and we're growing. I can find myself in those roles, so it makes it easy to connect to. But all of them are their own person - they're all hard to understand and hard to figure out, just like I am.

It'd be fun to do a comedy with someone like Sandra Bullock.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.

You know early on when you're given a gift that can keep you sane. That's what acting does for me. It keeps me honest and keeps me sane.

Nobody sang better than my mom. That's why I've never even thought of singing for singing sake. I've always thought of a song as an acting piece, as a way to say something.

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

If I sat around thinking about acting all day, I'd lose my mind.

The stage is where I started, and there is a tremendous satisfaction in doing a good play.

I was satisfied with my role in 'Luck,' and I am proud of the film.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

To be at the point in which I am playing characters that make such a difference to people and that really tell interesting and important stories, it took getting here to realize how important it is and how satisfying it is.

I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.

I'd done acting at a local drama school on Saturdays. I just enjoyed it. It never entered my mind I could possibly do it for a career.

It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'

I saved every script I'd ever worked on as an actor.