Quotes About Acting

I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened accidentally.

Do you know, I have no idea how I got 'The Avengers'? I'd left the Royal Shakespeare Company, and I was one of a long list of girls, and got it on my audition.

When I started out, I had no idea what I was doing. I was 16, and acting was a new, exciting thing. So, I took it on. It was an excuse to get away from college.

I had no intention of being an actor.

I'd done plays in middle school, done some for the church in high school, but I had no intention of ever being a professional actor.

When I was a musician, I had no intention of taking up acting.

I have no interest in watching myself act.

A lot of times, I'll get roles where it's the dumb blonde or the cheerleader, and I just have no interest - and it can be a great movie, it really can - or the mean girl; those things don't intrigue me much.

I just have no interest in the industry of acting, I don't want anything to do with it. But I respect the craft.

My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'

By the time I grew up, acting just seemed like something I'd already done. I had absolutely no interest in it, even though some people thought it would be my calling.

I was doing specialisation in advertising. I had no interest in acting. One of my friends, who was doing specialisation in films, made a short film casting me. Luckily, I got a break, and my acting career took off.

Films just happened by chance. I had no interest in films or acting as a heroine, but that's a long story.

At no point was I like, 'Man, I gotta write me a part where people are going to take me seriously'.

One of my favorite movies is Bette Davis in 'All About Eve,' and it is shocking there was no pressure on her to be likable.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

I have played mother many times in south films. And I really have no problem with it.

I have absolutely no problem on doing a negative character. If that matches up to my acting caliber, I will definitely do that.

I was merely an automaton endowed with power of movement, responding to the stimuli of the sense organs and thinking and acting accordingly.

thespian, since Kev's into that.

Nothing is completely authentic. Even the guys who kill themselves are partially acting.

It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.

Glaubt mir, für meine Mutter ist das nicht nur Schauspielerei; sich im Bett harpunieren zu lassen ist eine ihrer Lieblingsbeschäftigungen.

This is the big hammy way Brandy has played her whole life. The Brandy Alexander nonstop continuous live action theater, but less and less live by the moment.