Quotes About Acting

The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.

I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.

Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me.

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

It's always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.

I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.

Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but youve got a lot of downtime as well.

I would love to work with my sister in a movie one day - like play sisters or something like that, because we've never been on-screen at the same time together.

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.

I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn't totally make sense initially.

Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

The work I enjoy is when the camera rolls, and I like the work in the moment.

If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.

Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.

I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.