Quotes About Acting

I've always enjoyed watching characters that aren't aware that they're doing anything funny. And I think that inherently makes them funnier.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke." That holds true through a lot of our stuff.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

I don't want to be the funny girl or the serious girl. I would hope to touch on all different genres and all different types of characters, which I think I've been lucky enough to do, so far.

It's funny that you [Zachary Quinto] did a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead. I did the same thing for my university when I went to USC.

Buffoons may have serious faces behind their mask!

He forced himself forward trying to seem innocent without acting like someone who was guilty who was trying to act innocent.

I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.

We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

I do look forward to doing things in the future that I havent done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer!

I'm interested in doing some acting in the future, but it's a distant second to stand up.

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.

If you can mix Hilary Duff and Gary Oldman into the same actor, that's my goal. I know it's strange to think about, but that's the goal.

The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

My sister wanted to be an actress. She never made it, but she does live in a trailer... so she got halfway. She's an actress, she's just never called to the set.

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be. Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.

I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades...or a game of fake heart attack.

All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.

I always play women I would date.

Love is speaking and acting out your personality while hoping for a reaction in relativity.