Quotes About Acting

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.

When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.

Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.

There's nothing worse or more grating than a bad child actor performance.

I learnt a lot as a child actor. Since I had been before the camera, I knew how it would be to be on a set or on a shoot. That way it was easy for me when I re-entered the industry as the main lead.

I've built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody's Chinese in the films.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.'

I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.

It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.

I don't have much power to make many films, but I do have the power in what roles I choose.

I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

I always believe an actor is as good as the content as he gets or chooses.

I've always believed that it's the film that chooses the actor and not the other way round.

Inspiration is key for me in choosing characters.

I became extremely choosy about films.

My acting chops are awful.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

I choose things that challenge me. I was afraid of the camera - that's why I chose to do 'Private Practice.' It's not like I left the theater.