Quotes About Acting

A costume is the least convincing part of a role. It's the acting that makes or breaks you.

Playing Doctor Who came as a great surprise to me. I had no idea that I would enjoy it so much. All that was required of me was to be able to speak complete gobbledygook with conviction.

I was playing Rasputin and what was motivating him was crumpet really, and I was extremely keen on crumpet so I was really rather good as Rasputin. And my next catastrophic failure was Macbeth, who I played in the style of a crumpet-lover, and then when Doctor Who came along, I embraced this lunacy, this cloud-cuckoo-land where people had to be convinced by absolute nonsense. I came from a very religious background, so it was easy for me to believe in something I knew nothing about.

The boxing gloves are really itchy, and doing press ups in them is hard, but I love acting so much that it's worth it.

It would never occur to me not to look dreadful if that's the job description.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I started in theater; I did theater in New York for 14 years before I even thought about doing movies - I never thought about being in a film; it just never occurred to me.

I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.

The most memorable part of filming 'Finesse,' I'd have to say, was the kissing scene. It was just so odd for me.

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.

As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.

Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.

Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

What's odd is that I've never been asked to do any comedy in film. That's something I could certainly do.

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

For the type of parts I play, I should be booed. But it's odd, fans just adore me. I can't explain it.

Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.

I didn't really do any acting until I was about 28. I just did odd jobs.

I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.

Getting all dressed up and putting on fancy clothes - all of that's a great thing, but oddly, it doesn't really have a lot to do with acting most of the time.

Most of my acting has been for fantasy-based shows like 'A Korean Odyssey.' But for 'Vagabond,' it is totally different.

You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children, you back off of a little bit and let them be. It's the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be, and you let them go.