Quotes About Acting

It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.

I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.

It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don't know what else to say because that's all I know how to do.

I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.

I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.

It's not that I'm retired, I just no longer accept acting work.

The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!

I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.

Acting time is like flight time: You can work on a simulator, you can rehearse, but unless you're really in front of the camera or on a stage - that's when you really learn how to work it.

I was very lucky with 'Soap' and 'Who's the Boss,' which was great fun, and then went on 'Coach' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' I've been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy.

I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.

The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the strength to move on from adversity in my work.

I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.

It's fun to watch a true-blue movie star at work. They're really unbelievably charismatic. They understand camera angles.

I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.