Quotes About Acting

I once aged 90 years old in one episode.

If you just stay with it and take it scene by scene, episode by episode, all of the questions that I have, as an actor, tend to answer themselves.

When I did my first episode of 'Xena,' I told my parents this is the worst acting I've ever done.

I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.

It's equally interesting and challenging to work on stage as much as movies.

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

Don't opt for acting as an escape from education.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

I would definitely want to essay meatier roles in good films.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

It's - you know, acting's all about relatability and finding empathy for a character, which is essentially, kind of, you're finding empathy with a part of yourself, which is a part of a character that was written by someone else, which was essentially kind of a part of them as well because it was a voice in their head they wrote down.

TV gives people a chance to establish as an actor.

If I had taken 'Gilligan's Island,' I would never have gotten 'Coach' because I would have been established as Gilligan.

When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.

I would get a lot of roles for the ethnic friend and then I would go in for that and not be ethnic enough. They wanted an Indian accent. They wanted something more very visually, clearly specific.

As an ethnic actor, I still feel I can't be in 'Downton Abbey' or in period dramas.

I've always made a point to play roles that aren't specified by their ethnicity.

I've been working a long time, and mostly European films.

I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie.

Even now, when people come up to me and say, 'My kid's an actor. They want to move to L.A. What should they do?' Even if you wanted to help them as much as possible, there's really nothing you can do.

In television, what you have shot in the morning, may go on air that very day in the evening; but films give you a lot of time to work on your character.

I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.