Quotes About Acting

It's all choreographed; it's a routine. So I told everyone I really wanted to try fighting in action films. I had no stunt experience, but I had the dance background, and I was very agile and coordinated. And the best thing about being a newcomer to acting is you can afford to try new things.

When I'm a stunt woman on a movie, I'm strictly a 'Yes sir,' girl... But acting puts more in your hands, and producing gives you more control still.

It's always a stunt acting opposite Robert Picardo, because you never know what he's going to do.

I went to an acting class for 3 years. But then I figured out that, since there were already 26,000 actors in SAG (Screen Actors Guild), I could make a better living as a stunt man.

Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts.

If you really get into a particular character, you also want to do your own stunts.

I always wanted to be a stuntman. If acting went well and I was able to take a year out, I might train and get on the stunt register, which gives you qualifications so you can do more of your own stunts.

It was fun shooting for Vithagan.' It's a bubbly character. I perform minor stunts too.

I stepped away from stunts and into acting right around when stunt people started getting put into motion-capture stuff.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.

I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long time.

I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.

I act like I'm a bit stupid.

You have to be quite stupid to act.

I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid.

All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.

I would love to do a really stupid character on 'The Office'. I'm so an 'Office' fan.

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

I was always playing very stupid people, or the fat mate of the main girl.