Quotes About Acting

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

If there was another Dr. Quinn movie, I would do it in a heartbeat.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

I love being on a movie set.

I had no delusions about myself. I couldn't act - I had never acted. So how could I be a movie star?

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.

Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.

I'm loving saying 'I'm not a big movie star, but I play one on television.'

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

To get a movie star, you have to give them two hours of screen time.

Some are in it for the money, which is fine. Some of them are in it to be a movie star; that's another reason. Some actors - and this I never understand - will only play likeable characters. And if they're not likeable, they change them to be heroic.

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

I read an article some years back in which Emma Thompson demeaned my mother's acting ability. My mother would be the first person to say that she wasn't the best actress in the world. But she was a movie star.

There is a difference between movie actors and TV acting, especially with movie stars, which is they know their face is 20 feet high on the screen. They know they don't have to do much.

I had not grown up on theater - in Hughes, Ark., you went to see a movie on Saturday. So my acting heroes were movie stars. It was a natural thing for me to want to get into the movies.

Working with Zhao Wei and Huang Xiaoming, they're not just Chinese stars, they're movie stars.

You can get good performances in quite sizable roles from people who have never been in front of a camera, people who maybe have never been in front of a movie theater.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.