Quotes About Acting

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.

I would be so happy to be back on 'Arrow' or on 'Legends of Tomorrow,' in whatever capacity.

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.

Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance.

The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.

I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'

My SAG card was from doing 'Blue Bloods,' an episode called 'Justice Served.'

I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.

I wasn't raised in a family that cared about how you look. The fact that I have made my living in acting, where that matters, that really feels antithetical to me as a person.

I typically try not to think too hard about what I'm going to do in a certain scene with a certain actor in a certain moment because I think that kind of lends its way to not being as improvisational and sort of carefree as one would hope.

I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.

You have to be careful with Vikram around otherwise he would eat you alive with his acting!

I choose my roles carefully.

People think stars never have any problems or cares. That's bull. Why would we show any more than one mask to the public. There's a whole lotta things I've done that I don't want to think about. But I bring it all right out when I need it for a role.

It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.

I guess when you're carrying a film, you feel the weight of that because you're there every day, and you feel the weight of your character that way.

I had never really seen 'Agent Carter' before I got the part.

Like with 'Outlander' as well as with 'Agent Carter,' I had never heard of 'Outlander' before I got the part.

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.

I would love to be the voice of a cartoon character in a movie for my kids. I think that would be fun.

I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.

Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.