Quotes About Acting

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

I've read a lot of scripts and I'm really luck to be able to play a woman who's funny and can be charming and has a mischievous side to her as well. I'm really lucky.

Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.

I've done a lot of Fox shows since then - Married with Children, Living Single and a whole bunch of other Fox things.

Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.

The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.

I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.

That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

I'm a straight lady, the best in Hollywood. There is an art to playing the straight role. You must build up your man, but never top him, never steal the laughs.

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

I think the parts that I played sort of broke the mould in terms of - you know, I played grey characters, the bad girl with a good heart, there was a good reason for her to be bad.

I feel, as an actor, you should be in a position to mould yourself into different characters and should have the ability to change.

I only like playing people who are completely different from me. I try to mould myself into that character.

'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

This will sound funny coming out of my mouth, but I like to play characters that have an intelligence. It doesn't matter if it's a physical intelligence or emotional intelligence.

I was always getting caught for running my mouth. Which is why it was the best thing for me to get into acting so I could express myself.