Quotes About Acting

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.

Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.

I would love to work with Gena Rowlands. I just don't know in what capacity. I'd play her daughter or granddaughter, or whatever. I would just love to work with her, in whatever capacity.

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.

In order to be able to work with somebody in acting, you've first got to think that person's a good actor before you can enjoy working with them. I guess that goes with the trust.

So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.

The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.

The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.

I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.

In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

Blood, especially fake, and guns, this is bullshit. It works in the movie, but on set it doesn't work for me.

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.

Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.