Acting Quotes

"To give a successful character portrayal on stage or on film, the part has to be played inside of you."

"I suppose I had a soulful quality. I was often cast as a wounded person, the 'sensitive' role."

"Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me."

"Every time you're on stage, you're acting."

"It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak."

"A lot of times, for videogames, you get almost no time to prepare with a script."

"I think acting is the most difficult one among all the performing arts."

"I just want to tell great stories."

"What drives me is character driven material."

"Sometimes I feel like my normal approach to roles has been, 'I want to be more complex, dynamic.'"

"As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention."

"The secret of being a great actor is a love of food."

"Any aspect of life can help you be a better actor because what are we doing except living life while somebody's recording it?"

"I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing."

"My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him."

"Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again."

"I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach."

"I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre."

"As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before."

"I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film."

"To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen."

"I don't think I am an actor, because I haven't studied to be an actress."

"Acting was always in the back of my head."

"I think that everybody likes the bad guy."

"For the things that I've been involved in, most of it has really been - it's been a mixture of action and then drama."