Quotes About Acting

A lot of actors on film sets... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I've always had that awareness and that's something that I've wanted to bring in to go beyond acting... As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked.

I think the reason why I'm an actress is because I got hooked on the feeling of studying for an audition, going to the audition, and then getting that phone call.

I didn't intend to even become an actor. I was studying fashion, and I think acting just happened by chance. It really felt more like I was watching a movie from outside, like it was happening to someone else. It's been a great journey so far.

I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part.

I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

It was like baptism by fire. There was no school for studying acting. You just have to take it upon yourself to learn from your peers. It's about opening your eyes, listening, and watching.

After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.

A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.

I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts.

I played a doctor on 'Counterpart', so that was about studying and watching documentaries and reading and trying to learn.

In 1987, when I was 19, I was studying musical theater at Boston's Emerson College. My sister, Tricia Leigh, told me about a summer acting retreat in Italy. Mom paid, so off we went.

My mom put me into a performing arts elementary school back in Cincinnati, so I started studying acting in school when I was seven.

Id been wanting to do dramatic work for awhile, and Ive been studying with a really wonderful acting teacher, Diana Castle.

I'm studying musical arts, all the way to composition. But I'm also studying theater arts, stage directing and acting.

I thought that studying the performing arts and becoming an actress would give me a reason to leave home at a younger age.

When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

I was a regular on 'Holby City,' and I did daytime; that's how I started off. Off in Hong Kong doing stuntman stuff, then coming back to England doing daytime soap operas.

In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvising quite a bit of my scenes, and later I didn't even remember what I'd said because I just winged it. When I went and saw the movie, I was as stunned as everyone else was.

I'm stunned that people keep asking me to play characters I didn't expect to play.

When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a stunning actress. She came out of her shell. She was herself again: this very independent, funny, intellectual lady - and was able to perform again, which was her life before meeting my father squashed it out.

I was proud of 'Robin Hood,' even though critics wrote negative things. But I had to laugh when this big, shaven-headed Hungarian stunt guy first saw me. He said, 'You Jonas? You playing Robin Hood? You need to go to the gym today.' So I thought, 'I'm going to show people.'

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.