Quotes About Acting

I have acted in over 50 films and 15 daily soaps, but the thrill I feel while performing for my home audience is unparalleled.

I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.

I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it.

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.

There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.

Any actor has their moments of being stressed, but the great part about this job is that it's so unpredictable, and that's what I like. I love spontaneity. I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5.

I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything. But with TV, it's really unpredictable.

I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places.

I never don't know my lines. I never take the audition pages into the room. I end up relying on them or looking at them too much, and it makes me feel unprepared, so I always learn my lines without fail.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.

I just got to do a challenging scene with Jennifer Aniston! That's unreal to me.

While it's great that some actors can do any character with conviction, I'd probably look odd doing anything unreal.

Working next to Glenn Close was unreal. I kept saying, 'I'm gonna pinch myself, this is a dream.' She's one of the most respected actresses in the world, and I respect her so much.

I was making myself a hotdog and pulling some curly fries out of the oven, and I got the call from manager, and she said, 'You got it. You're Betty Cooper.' It felt so unreal.

Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal.

I don't know if I would ever truly want somebody's life in my hands. I think what these people, what doctors and nurses and public service employees do on a day-to-day basis, is unreal, and it takes a special type of person to do that - and I don't think I'm that type of person. I'm happy to play one on TV.

I really enjoy working. I really enjoy telling stories. I really enjoy acting. The idea that I would have a baby and stop doing that was unrealistic to me.

I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.

I always knew I wanted to act but I was really afraid to desire something that seemed so unrealistic and a long shot. I was a kid memorizing entire movies and TV episodes but I didn't take it seriously until I was about 19. Then I moved to New York and took it head on.

I would love to play a sociopath or, like, an unreliable narrator.

The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.

I'm often asked, 'Who has you worked with who you really thought was great?' and I think Eleanor Parker was the first and one of the only who was a really accomplished actress, a really caring actress, who was most unselfish, and I was secretly in love with her.