Quotes About Acting

I will never stop acting. The day I will do that, I will die.

If you don't see me act, my work is done. The actor must never take the character beyond the scope of the movie.

I love playing 'Radagast.' He's my new love, you know what I mean? I'm not divorcing 'Doctor Who.' I'm just going to be married to a few people.

When I start gearing up to do each new season of 'Murdoch', my wife will often catch me out. I start speaking differently. I start enunciating, and start using certain highbrow words, and things like that.

When I'm doing a part, I'm not coming with any baggage of who did what. I looked at 'Force 2' as a fresh film. It's a new story and a new director.

Shooting a new story out of order every week is a fundamentally different beast than stage work, where you tell the same story every night from beginning to end.

I love learning new things, and 'Austin & Ally,' honestly, was probably the best foundation for the acting side of me, just cause I learned so much.

Acting-wise, I'm way more comfortable finding out new things about the actor in me and RJ as a person. There's a lot of new nuggets that I can dip in the sauce.

I got to express myself in a whole new way as a different person on camera, in a different way as an actress, and I loved it.

Cameos are fun. You get to be the new kid on a new set, in a new world with a new family.

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

I told my parents I wanted to move to New York City and be an actress when I was around seven or eight.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

Whatever I did, I always gravitated toward trying to be funny. If I was with friends, we were joking around. If I wrote for the newspaper, it would be a humor column. If I acted, I wanted to do comedy.

I love playing different and challenging characters on screen, and Newton is one such role. But I'm someone who doesn't think so much about what will happen next.

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role.

As actors, we want to choose somebody who has conflicts. I can't be always playing the girl next door. What's the challenge in that?

I want to just be able to act and be like the girl next door or the cute babysitter or the busy mom who's fun or who knows, maybe something super dramatic, somebody who's really insecure and angry.

I can be the girl next door, be the sexy girl, be an action girl. As an actor, this is something that people need to see.

I have never really ever gotten to play the girl next door.

I would always worry that I was only going to play the girl next door or the cute girlfriend. But I've been really lucky that all my roles have been very intense and completely different kinds of characters.

I want to take on more diverse roles, and I keep building, and I hope to one day write or direct something. But I just want to keep developing as a person, and that will hopefully take my acting to the next level.

I've been doing this journey in acting and singing since I was six years old, and I definitely think this will take me to the next level - in movies.