Quotes About Acting

I didn't think acting would be a lucrative career.

I grew up watching 'I Love Lucy.'

I've done plays where you get into the run and can go to auditions during the day, or can have lunch with someone, and then you go to half-hour and show up.

Acting is a great luxury, a joy, and a pleasure.

I'd be lying to you if I said at 8 I went up to my parents and said, 'Listen, I'm going to become an actor.' That was not the case.

I'm just saying, and I'm going to say it enough times: I want to play Bernie Mac.

I did 'Macbeth' in elementary school, but I was never in theater or anything like that.

'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

I'm feeling a lot of pressure because it is first time for me to cast as the main character.

I'm based in L.A., mainly. I'm pretty much there a lot of the time doing work.

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

When I work, I think mainly in terms of dramatic choices.

It's mainly been the case where I do very few live action roles - not out of choice but more out of not getting asked.

I want to work with Song Joong Ki sunbae again who I worked with in 'Vincenzo.' I learned so many things from Song Joong-ki sunbae but it's regrettable that we mainly filmed together only in the second half.

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.

Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.

That's what acting is: really make-believe.

TV does not offer much for the male lead actors, but I was lucky to act in shows like 'Chandragupta Maurya,' 'Rab Se Sohna Isshq,' 'Gunahon Ka Devta,' and 'Rangrasiya.'

'Junebug' is my favorite Amy Adams movie. I remember watching 'Mama' a lot.