Quotes About Acting

I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

I'm a T-shirts, sweatpants, and jeans kind of gal; I dress really simply and comfortably. But one of the things I love about being an actor is that I get to wear amazing costumes.

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

One of the things you have to be acutely aware of when shooting episodes out of order is your character's relationship with the other characters.

One of the things I learned very early on is you need to cast the kids for the characters you want them to play. They need to be who they are, right? If you want a loud, boisterous kid character, you need to find that kid.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.

That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that makes doing 'Comedy Bang Bang' or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself.

One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, and he said, 'She should audition for this role I have!' So I did! It was a movie called 'The Gospel,' which I did when I was five. That was when I was like, 'I want to do this acting thing!'

I did drama at school and when I was doubling Xena, one time for my birthday mom and dad bought me an acting course 'cause I've always liked the performance side of anything.

I always view auditions as the first and last time I'll ever do a character, so that's how I like to see the joy in it. Assuming I don't ever book this, I get to play this character this one time and give it my all because I'll never play it again.

Nobody wants to play a one-dimensional character.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove me crazy.

I don't know any women who are one-dimensional, so why would I play one?

I love playing a character who has an adversary she can go one-on-one with.

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

To become a better actor, one needs to look inwards and understand oneself better. Then, you can create magic on screen.

I love to sing, but I really only love to do it when it goes along with acting, when it's my character singing. I'd rather not do an album or tour.

The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.'

I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy it one little bit! The only time I did enjoy it was when I was asked to read out loud in front of the class, as I then used it as an acting exercise!