Quotes About Acting

I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.

In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character.

If you worry too much, it shows in your acting, and it ceases to be effortless.

I didn't become an actor to become a celebrity.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

All that celebrity stuff isn't me. It's just not acting.

I think there is a difference between being a celebrity and being an actor.

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.

When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.

I went to the Actors Centre in Australia, but I never thought that I'd move to India, let alone be in Bollywood.

There aren't a lot of roles in comedy for women of a certain age to play, especially with a 22-year-old.

Take Punjab 1984' or Sardari Begum' or Khamosh Pani,' the Punjabi mother I have played in films are all of a certain age and I have won accolades, something I did not get as a young actress perhaps.

In a play, a few actors perform a few characters, and they need to perform those characters with a certain level of believability so that audiences can actually understand and see them as those characters.

I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.

I love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.

I often have the feeling that acting is really not difficult, because all I do is I just listen. I just listen. I just listen to what there is. And if there's nothing, then I listen to nothing. If there's a chair, and it's empty, I listen to an empty chair, and I will respond to it.

I love challenge. I love to be afraid before a film, before acting. I think always I want to experience fear. I've become addicted to this feeling.

I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.

I think that 'Degrassi' really challenged its actors. I was on it for seven years, and it was one of my first jobs. I can't even watch the early episodes - they're so embarrassing! But I really do think I grew as an actor and learned a lot over the seven years.

I've always had aspirations to play other characters, but over the years I've always felt so happy and so challenged at 'Emmerdale.'

Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

I really enjoy playing a challenging role.

I just look at the character and the arc of the character, and see if it's going to be challenging. We always want to challenge ourselves. That's the biggest thing that I look at. Is this going to be a challenge? Is this going to be something that I can try my best to create, that no one could see anyone else do?