Quotes About Acting

When TV came along some years back I purposely stayed away from drama.

I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.

I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.

I was in L.A., like, four months, and I got my first part. Then I was like, 'OK, I'm staying.'

To me, acting is simple. People put other things in front of it, but it's staying in truth.

Some people have heard of The Method, which originally goes back to Stanislavski... he gave you six major pointers whereby you became that character and tried to fool your mind psychologically. That's it in a nutshell. Daniel Day Lewis is an example of somebody like that who stays in character between takes.

I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.

From the very beginning when I took a plunge into acting, I was prepared mentally that I am not going to be in a rush, rather I would choose to be a slow and steady player in this industry.

Eight years of steady acting training nonstop... three years in the profession. And I'm still in the apprentice mode and I'm still watching everybody and learning.

A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

I don't know if you can ever steal a scene from Louis C.K. or Melissa McCarthy. I think that's kind of impossible.

After kids, the desire to improve as an actor remains, but time becomes hugely important. I want to do good work and do it well but then be at home. I love hanging out with my children, seeing how they behave, and stealing ideas off them. You can't do that if you're in a hotel, on a plane, or a film set. It's not real life.

I've been stealing scenes all my life.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

Hopefully, I'm not stealing scenes from other actors, because then they won't want to work with me.

It's hard enough for disabled people to get acting jobs without able-bodied people taking them. As an actor, I know that I'm not going to be stealing any able-bodied roles from any able-bodied people.

I lived what we call 'stealth' for a number of years. Even when I started acting in the industry, I didn't disclose. I didn't come out. My first job on 'Law & Order' was not a trans role.