Quotes About Acting

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.

The theater was my mother and my father.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.

My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.

I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.

Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother.

~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~

I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.