Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.

It strengthens the acting muscles to tap into other parts of yourself. When you can accomplish something that's unexpected, for you as well as the audience, that's really important. It's also very...

The actors I admire are character actors.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy it one little bit! The only time I did enjoy it was when I was asked to read out loud in front of the...

I've been in movies where the movie doesn't come together but the role comes together, or the movie comes together but the role doesn't come together or something like that. Something misses. It's...

I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for a while because that's what people have seen you do, and have...

I have always felt responsible for every character I played, devoting myself to learning everything about the craft.

I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting.

I've played 'Latin-looking spiv, third from the right' so many times I can't count.

When what you do is play characters every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends.

Playing a real-life character is very intriguing.

I don't have a set way of dressing or a uniform, though I kind of wish I did. But then again, I also love that I can be any sort of character I want - that's a little bit of the actress coming out of...

I studied acting at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh because I figured a good comedian certainly could act.

Viola Davis is just one of those actors who is never bad in anything. She could be in an awful film but you'd never come away from it saying she was bad.

I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what...

With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can...

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I...

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character...

In England, I'm known for playing villains.

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

I want to carry a really great role in a great film.

Sometimes I get a little confused because with dancing I can express my emotions with my body. With acting you have to do it with your face and your expressions, and then with animated shows you have...

Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.

Acting - I'm good at it, but it's not my passion. Music, I'm not as good at, but that's my passion. I think I'm just going to go with the flow, wait until one picks up, and take the opportunities one...

When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.

Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.

What musical performers bring to straight characterizations is that physical flexibility that comes with knowing your body so well. A lot of actors are terribly awkward. Terribly. And I think it's so...

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.