Quotes About Acting

For films, like my serials, I am looking for roles that help me evolve in the character.

There are enough roles for everyone, and I truly believe that the roles that we end up doing are the exact ones that are right for us at that time as people and as actors.

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same.

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.

The day I was born, I knew I was going to act! Okay, that can sound a bit exaggerated, but I knew I want to enter films when I started understanding the world of films and saw my father going on sets. Maybe when I was just a kid.

We have had examples in our industry of people working for 30-40 years because of their ability to act. Your looks leave you after a point, you don't look the same way you did when you were in your 20s or 30s. After that you have only your ability to show.

I've been acting since I was 9, but in college I entered the drama program, and I didn't excel at it at all, kind of for the first time.

I think of myself as an excellent actress with a lot to offer, but I'm not aggressive; I'm not ambitious. In fact, I'm anti-ambitious.

'Y&R' is the No. 1 show, and the acting company is exceptional.

I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.

It doesn't matter what people think about me on screen. I will take up and do role which excite me and are interesting.

I am always excited to be an actor. If I wasn't, I would be acting, and the audience wouldn't watch me.

With period dramas, it's very easy to get excited because I love to do them.

I'm always excited to work and excited to be on a show as good as 'Dexter,' for sure.

I think I am filled with excitement when it comes to doing films.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

The lamest excuse that I get incessantly is, 'Oh, we're not going ethnic with that role,' so I can't go in for it, or I can't get the part, which is really stupid, because, in today's world, people look different.

As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist.

When you play a person who exists in real life, it is different than when you play fiction.

I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.