Quotes About Acting

It was nice to play something that felt a little more muted or internalized in 'The Daughter.'

Every single second of extra time to work with other actors has definitely always, for me, paid off for the film. For the project. Every single extra heartbeat you could get, mutually considering the scene, was of benefit.

I didn't know that I could act, but my friend told me, 'Before you do directing, maybe you should try acting. It would be better for you. When you know how to act, it would help you be a better director.' So I was like, Oh, maybe, okay, maybe I'll try.

When I began my journey in films, I never thought I'd be playing the lead in my films and was keen to move ahead with roles that give me scope to act.

I got into this business because I like acting and I want to make movies. I would be happy living the rest of my life never famous.

My number one passion is acting, but I also think there's something so special in being able to support a script and an idea and take it all the way through to fruition. I think that process is so rewarding.

I've got a lot of friends who are actors so even when I don't have auditions of my own, I'll be working on someone else's scenes with them.

Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.

My only goal is to be the best actress I can be. You have to give it everything. All I have as an actress is the revelation of my soul.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

Certainly my time on 'Revenge' was great; it was a different character I'd never played before.

There will only ever be 13 dwarves in 'The Hobbit' - and I was one of them. If I had my time again, would I do it? Yeah, I would.

People always think that because of 'Dr. Quinn' that I just play nice family stuff. But the truth of the matter is that 'East of Eden' was a very successful thing for me in the past. I've played a lot of very evil people in my time.

I loved my time doing 'Private Practice' in Los Angeles, and I was quite challenged and excited to learn about the art of television, but I missed being on the stage.

Any audition that I have now, I feel like it's easier for me to learn the words because of my time on 'One Life to Live.'

Scripts didn't exist during my time in Bollywood, or, at least, I was never given one. I don't want to act at all and am happy in my cave.

I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.

Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.

I really wanted to be part of 'Trinkets' and play Moe because there's something very mysterious about her.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I acted in a couple friends's short films and thought I was gonna be really good and mysterious and sexy. And I was just terrible and self-aware.

I like being mysterious as an actress.

Mimicking childbirth on 'Grey's' has taken the mystery out of it.