Quotes About Acting

There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to act first. At the same time, my goal was never to go to Hollywood to make movies. I think if you come here with that attitude, then you've missed a few steps.

Denzel's all about the work. He's all about the acting. He's an actor. He'll tell you himself, 'I'm not a movie star, celebrity, something else. I'm an actor.' He steps on a set, that's what he is, and that's what he gives you. He gives his heart.

I don't know why all these actors think going to a gym or riding horses or learning how to fight are the steps to becoming an actor.

Acting job can create a fantasy or stereotype for others. That's why we try not to show our personal lives so much.

As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.

Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn't know where to put me. The blond hair wasn't matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better for my work.

About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are.

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

I try to take roles that don't fall within the parameters of any Asian stereotype.

I've been fortunate that a lot of roles I've done have been professionals and not your TV stereotype of Latinos.

I know that when you do similar kind of films, one after the other, people tend to stereotype and say, 'She is only good at this.'

I want to break the stereotype that when an actress becomes a mother, she can only do certain type of roles.

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

existentialism represents a long tradition in the history of philosophy in the West, extending back at least to Socrates (469–399 bc). This is the practice of philosophy as 'care of the self' (epimeleia heautou). Its focus is on the proper way of acting rather than on an abstract set of theoretical truths.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

She looked at him a moment in silence and wonder. She did not yet know that she was a great actress—that the knowledge of how men and women behave in extremity was at the center of her lifework

Doing 'White Collar ' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

I already had a lot of friends at school who didn't care about the whole acting thing, so there was no reason for me to not be in school.

I have no respect for acting where I'm concerned.

I'd rather have two minutes of screen time and have purpose than have 20 minutes of screen time in a separate track that makes no sense to the story.

There are some roles that are a no-brainer. You just have a sure, instinctive 'Yes!'

If Russell Crowe says that he's Noah, he's Noah. You never doubt it. If he says that he's the Gladiator, he's the Gladiator. He's every character that he says he is. I've never doubted anything that he's done.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.