Quotes About Acting

Acting is emotionally draining, so I make it a point to not do anything when I am home.

You've got to empathize with every character you play.

Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.

If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people.

I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.

It isn't often I get a part that enables me to play someone from the age of 13 up to 81.

We did a thing that we would call we call 'hirstories.' H - I - R - S - T - O - R - Y. I would enact a young Mort. And that always felt - it was so funny - it felt more difficult than playing Maura.

I became completely enamored of the idea that I would play someone I knew personally.

There aren't many shows that encompass roles for a seven-year-old to someone in their 50s.

We're not an acting family, but my parents have always encouraged me.

Acting is acting at the end of the day. How does it matter if it is in films or on TV?

I'm not always the first person to run out and see something I'm in. I don't know; for me, that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don't really think about the end result. I don't feel like I have to see it - for me, it already happened.

It's weird that I've ended up playing so many real live people, because I was never any good at impersonations at school.

I would love to do films. It's just the way things happened for me - I ended up doing a lot of TV.

Sometimes, actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member, you can read the actor.

I thought my acting career was going to just last forever - and I didn't plan on it ending at 41, 42 years of age.

I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.

A lot of acting projects and endorsement opportunities are coming my way.

The problem is that you can't really read a script saying, 'Hmmm, I'll just see what this is.' You have to go right into it; you have to get engaged with it, and once you are engaged, you want to do it! It's really difficult to get uninvolved.

I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!

For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it.