Quotes About Acting

I love playing women at the far ends of the social scale. I've done it all my life; that's where my ability lies.

'Scandal' is certainly different from anything else I've been involved with as an actor.

Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career.

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

Actors shouldn't be scared. Don't get scared on film.

I haven't seen 'The Exorcist,' but I've seen a lot of pictures of the girl in it. So now I don't actually want to see it. She scares me so much. I don't know what it is, but even though it's quite old now, it still has the best and scariest make-up I've ever seen in my life.

I have actual acting scars.

I find it scary to sing - scarier than acting actually.

The acting life can be quite scary, really.

To play anybody real and famous is very scary.

A lot of actors try to sabotage other actors, and that's sad because then you're never going to get that beautiful scene.

Acting in a scene is easy.

You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

Nude scenes aren't fun.

They're called 'action scenes' because they do the acting for you. You don't have to act in action scenes. The action does it all for you. It's great.

I liked a lot of the scenes I did with Ryan Phillippe.

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.

Long scenes of emotion are quite difficult - you've got to build up to them and make sure you're in the right emotional space.

Death scenes are hard. Sex scenes are hard.

Love scenes feel very mechanical. But our whole job is to make it look real.

Whatever headspace you need to live in for your character is sort of where you stay in between scenes.

It doesn't matter about the length of the role. I don't do films for the number of scenes. I go for the quality of my character in the film and the impact that I will have.

I had never done anything like I had done in 'Masters of Sex.' Those are some very adventurous scenes.