Quotes About Acting

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.

To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn't had any training.

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong thing, etcetera, it's just unbearable.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

My favorite thing in the whole is getting to work with the actors.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles.

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.

There's the acting side of it so you work with a coach. Dissect a script. If it's a character, then obviously a character study. Just depends on if there is training needed.

I don't go to parties and all that. I don't think being seen or being in the right place is going to make me a better actress. I care about my work and try to do what's right in my heart.