Quotes About Acting

Everybody understands that acting is a really difficult job. It's hard work. You've got to get dressed up, you've got to hang around with beautiful women. It's difficult. It's a problem.

T.V.s weird because its both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.

Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that's the thing that I'm not so comfortable with.

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years.

I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

"Lovelace" was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right?

When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.

I would like to work in both comedy and drama. I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my craft every day. I would be able to play this very real character.

I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.