Quotes About Acting

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.

The other death for an actor is comparing yourself to other people: Forget someone else's path. Concentrate on your path. Otherwise, you get lost, and if you don't have joy in the work, forget it.

I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.

When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

To do six to 10 episodes of high-quality writing, and then be able to go direct my own things, and do a movie, if it comes along, sure. I just want to act and do good work.

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that.

It's easy to be an actor at 8 or 9 in the morning, but it's really important to be focused and work hard at 6 and 7 at night, after you've been on the set for 10 or 12 hours. That time counts, too.

You really have to work hard to create a three-dimensional character. You have to rehearse and explore and take your time. You can't just memorize your lines and do it on the fly.

I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.

When I first moved to New York I had been trying to work on anything and everything I could. From extra work and commercials to short and student films so I could learn in front of a camera.

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it's been an amazing learning curve.

There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.