Quotes about Acting

It's all about the script. I don't want to do something which makes me feel uncomfortable. It should suit my image and age.

My wife knows that I love her too much, so she is fine with the intimate scenes I do. She also knows that only if my role justifies such a scene will I do it. She understands my work as an actor.

I like roles that bring the unexpected. Roles that may challenge the way people think about things and perceive things. And I like roles that reflect a reality.

Everything you do on stage is always a response to something, not the next line.

It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.

True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.

That is the next step for out trans actors - to just be treated as actors and not 'trans actors.'

I haven't played a lot of nice guys.

The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her unreal; and us solemn, and self-conscious. We were made to act parts that we did not feel; to fumble for words that we did not know. It obscured, it dulled.

Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in.

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.