Quotes About Acting

I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions.

Fortunately, I had the luck to be able to begin to work and realize my potential in something that I like to do, and in something I had wanted to do, which was acting.

I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.

It was hard to be taken seriously being model-turned-actress. I needed to work on my acting chops. There are so few parts available that are good for women.

People who work on soaps all the time understand the formula of how to do it.

I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with her. She's been one of my favorite actresses for a while.

I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work... Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!

I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.

Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

I just really enjoy the ritual of going to work and playing, which is essentially what we do. We play pretend. Acting is a kids' game.

I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?

It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.

Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can sense the reaction from the audience and quickly move on.

I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.

Would I like to play the lead? You bet. Absolutely. But I get to have fun and I don't have to shave when I go to work.

Pierre [from Dude, Where's My Car?] could be the best thing I've ever done. When you distill it down to a minute and a half of work, that may be my finest effort.

[Out To Sea] was like a dream come true for me, because I got to work with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau], who were unbelievable.