Quotes About Acting

If you ask me, we actors have this amazing ability to detach ourselves from an emotion and just do it for the camera.

Don't tell me I'm crazy. I'm out here acting natural.

When I got out of college, I booked a movie called 'Go for It!' with Lionsgate, came out here, and I've been acting ever since - or trying, constantly trying.

I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.

I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.

It's no good in a scene to have one actor lie down because the scene says it's the other actor's moment. Each actor has to believe that with extra will, the outcome of a scene can be different. An actor can win the scene if he exerts the most powerful will in that moment.

Next to acting, being in the great outdoors is my biggest passion.

I was mired in modelling and acting. But as I am an outdoors person, I was still trekking and doing some other activities.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.

What you wear for work should be comfortable and empowering. If you're working in business, your outfit should mean business. If I go to meet somebody about an acting job, or something creative, then I'll be in my jeans. For me, overdressing is my biggest fear.

I grew up dancing, so that was always my first dream. But I also have a passion for acting. I would love to step inside of a character and be somebody that I'm not, because I feel like it just gives me an outlet to express myself without being me.

Acting goes back a little ways for me. I supposed I started with theater growing up. It was mainly a social outlet and it was just kind of something I did for fun. I met a lot of good friends through it, so it really kept me involved.

It's going to sound cliche, but I started acting as an emotional outlet.

When I was younger, I felt very alone and that I didn't fit into my own skin. I loved the idea of becoming somebody else, and acting was an outlet for me and those emotions.

There was no one moment when I decided I would spend my life acting. I am not certain that I will. Acting has never been a consistent passion. I have done it since I was young - so I have been acting for 30 years - but intermittently. I always had other jobs, joys, and creative outlets.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.

I remember on 'Dr. Katz,' there was no script really at all. There were just scene outlines.

Acting is just another facet and it will not affect my output as a music director.

The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.

I have been offered so many parts in movies and I just think it's so outrageous as I've never really done acting or things like that.

I've played outrageous characters my whole career.

You never want to just be outrageous for outrageous' sake 'cause then it doesn't work, and it's not believable. You want to be as true to whatever character you're playing.