Quotes About Acting

Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience.

Making 'Beloved' was an awesome experience.

There's only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in order to act, you need to live a little bit to fill yourself with experience.

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

I've never really had a chance to play a bad guy, and that's something I've always really, really wanted to do. I wanted to experience that really dark side of a person.

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school.

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's the experience or the same qualities.

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.

[Payne] was a really great experience, and both John [ Larroquette] and JoBeth [Williams] over the years, it's been great reconnecting with them and working with them on other projects as well.

Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons Actors have no inhibitions, and Im inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.