I’m lucky the business I’m in is just forced empathy, because you are constantly putting yourself in the shoes of somebody else.
Acting - Actors Quotes
The majority of great actresses met tragic ends. When I said goodbye to this job, to this life of opulence and glitter, images and adoration, the quest to be desired, I was saving my life.
Not trying to take all the credit for Lizzie McGuire, but I am very much Lizzie McGuire, and she is very much me.
To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.
The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king. (Hamlet)
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.
Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special o’erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, […]
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
