Quotes About Acting

To my knowledge, I don't believe I've taken a role that I didn't feel I could do when I read the screenplay.

Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.

I work from my heart. When I look at the script, I need to feel myself in the character.

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

I just arrive, they hand me a script and say, do it.

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I'm good with a script.

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look at the part, the people involved.

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

I watch the TV or learn scripts while on the elliptical - need to get back on it!

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.

I will do a film if there is a good scope for acting. I am looking for good scripts.

I just try to do justice to the scripts that are written.

With my characters, I prefer to not say too much, and in fact, I tend to cut down some of the lines in most scripts I get.

I am doing films that are content-oriented and where I have the scope to perform. Rarely do such scripts happen.

I'm not very good when I'm given scripts.